The sun., 1898-10-23

ant OF the Gaddises to bed. In all, Joe
ConIey's safe contained $1,000 of his
money in gold.
'The Harvey Gaddis boy looked bit
rocky when he showed up the next
morning.
Say, what did you let me gamble for
last nightp he asked me when he met
me downtown. Didn't you know that
that SIS, 900 I received from father was
to pay for the miner
Son. said l, Pm not the sky pilot
of this camp. Moreover, you don't krow
the difference between advice and ton
of coal.'
"'Why, it was awfup the cub went
on. Just think OF i'll might have lost!
I'm going to follow Buck Wingate right
up to Denver to day and pay him that
$4,000.
That's a good scheme said l,
thinking that Buck might as we'll have
the bundle as the tiger layouts, and |
went with him when he made for the
express office to order the express people
to box up the 81, 900 in gold at Joe Con-
ley's safe.
why don't you trade back some of
that gold for the paper money you gave
to Con Dinsmore and Bird Manley" |
asked him.
"Oh,' said he, they like the stuff and
l don't want to take it away from them
"He was out of the camp and bound
for Denver with his 81 900 box of gold
coin before noon and before more than
half dozen of the boys in camp knew
he was going after Wingate to pay him
for the mine. Dinsmore and Manley,
when they heard of it, expressed natural
regret that he hadn't stayed on long
enough to give them chance to get
even, but they consoled themselves with
the reflection that he would be back in a
couple OF days.
''Buck Wingate got back from Denver
the next morning. The first question the
boys asked him was if he had met his
tenderfoot mine customer in Denver and
got the $4,000 bundle.
why, no. said Buck, with look OF
surprise on his face. Has he left the
camp?
"'Went up to Denver yesterday to pay
you for your hole in the ground-hali in
gold and half in new bills
Bird Manley was the first to smell a
rat. He took the $50 and $l00 bills that
the Harvey Gaddis boy had given him
down to the cashier of the bank. The
cashier smiled when he looked at one of
the bills. He only gave one little feel of
one Of the bills between his thumb and
middle finger, and then he tossed the
mess of 81 900 out through his little win
dow to Manley.
Phony stuff, said the cashier, and
a poor article at that, How long have
you been good thing, Manley?
''Manley dropped by Con Dinsmore's
place and told Con of the thing. They
were a very tired looking pair. The Sec
ret Service man from the Treasury De-
partment who arrived in Creede about
week later, had us describe the tender
foot. Then he grinned.
'Tenderfoot? said he. That fellow
was Hiram Blundell, who's been one of
the clevertst queer-shovers on this con-
tInent ever since he was knee-high to a
grasshopper Pinkey Blundel, we call
him.
Then we told him about that mining
expert from Denver, and described
him.
l. Hdb was btssdlids JUN Iluulut,
said the Secret Service man, and he,
too, has been showing it all his life. But
he's not as good as Pinkey.'
"A coupe OF days agu," concluded tie
ex-Sheriff Of Creede, II read that Pinkey
Biundell had been gathered in down in
Little Rock, for distributing some very
tasty So silver certificates of the series of
lS9O.-IHe Nem York Sun.