The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-10-26

! out here. do your the tenderfoot asked
| him with a silly grin.
No replied Bird. and I'd lust az
lief you'd leave it out here If YOU get info
me- It's easy 70 count out, and | haven't
seen any of IT I'm SO long that I'm lone
some. II you rap me I'll square with you
IN gold
LIKE A DIGGER
Again the tenderfOot. who seemed 10 he
rather maudlin with drink by this time
was agreeable. and he pitched In and
wailoped Birds game almost to a stand
stlil He played bank like Digger
mum ud play the piano. keeping no
cases at all. but just hanging and slob-
bering over the table and slapping down
a stack here ana copper there with no
more idea of the cards that We're out or
IN the box. apparently. than fiddler in
"A dance tent a mile of. But all the
same, he was into Manley TO the tune of
$500 after he had been playing for a
couple Of hours, and then he seemed to
nave too much Of jag TO go on. He
mumbled that he thought he'd cash in
FOR the night. Bird counted out $500
I'm double eagles-the amount of the ten
dertoots original stake and his winnings
and the night marshal and a couple ~
other boys helped the cub pack the coin
over 10 JOS Conley's safe and then put
the apparently Jagged descendant OF the
Gaddises 10 bed. In all, Joe Conley's
safe contained $500 Of his money in gold.
The Harvey Gadds boy looked a bit
rocky when he showed up the next morn.
ing.
Say. what did you let me gamble
for last night?" he asked me when he
met me downtown. Didn't you know
that that $1,000 / received from father
was TO pay for the mine?
Son said |, I'm not the sky pilot OF
THIS camp. Moreover, you don't know
Inc difference between advice and a ton
Of coal.
Why. II was awful" the cub went
on. Just think OF i'll might have LOST
I'm going 10 follow Buck Wingate right
up 10 Denver to-day and pay him that
$1,000
That's a good scheme. said |. think
Ing that Buck might as well have the
bundle as the tiger layouts, and | went
with him when he made for the ex-
press office 10 order the express people
10 box up the $500 In gold at Joe Con.
leys 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 $500 box az gold coin
before noon, and before more than half
a dozen Of the boys in casip knew he
was going after Wingate TO pay him FOR
the mine. Dinsmore and Manley when
they heard OF il. expressed natural regret
that he hadn't stayed on long enough 10
give them chance 10 get even, bur they
consoled themselves with the reflection
- Ls. -,
days.
THE BIRD HAD FLOWN.
Buck Wingate got back from Denver
the next morning. The first question the
boys asked him was II he had met his
tenderfoot mine customer in Denver and
got the $1,000 bundle.
Why, no. said Buck. with a look OF
surprise on his face. Has he left the
campo
Went up 10 Denver yesterday 10 paw
you for your hole in the ground-.half 10
gold and half in new bills
Bird Manley was the first 10 smell a
rat. He took the so and 500 bills that
the Harvey Gadds boy had given him
down 10 the cashier OF the bank. The
cashier smiled when he looked at one OF
OF one Of the bills between bis thumb aud
middle finger. and then he tossed the
mess Of $1,000 out through his little win
dow 10 Marley
"Phoaey stuff said the cashier. and
n poor article at that. How long have
you been a good thing Marley?
Marley dropped by Con Dinsmore's
place and told Con Of the thing. They
were a very tired-looked pair. The Secret
Service man from the Treasury Depart
ment who arrived in Creole about n
week later had US describe the tenderfoot
Then he grinned.
+" 'Tenderfoot2 said he. That fellow
was Hiram Blundell who's been ono OF
the cleyerest queer-shovers on this con-
tinent ever since he was knee-hlgh to
grasshopper. Pinkey Blundeli we call
him.
Then we told him about that mining
expert from Denver. and described him
THAT was Sassafras John Hudnut,
said the Secret Service man, and he.
too. has been showing II all his life. But
he's not as good as Pinkey.
"A couple OF DAYS ago" concluded the
nx-sheriff OF Creole. ~ read that Pinkey
Blundell had been gathered i'm down in
Little Rock for distributing some very
tasty 81 silver certificates OF the series Of
1890. New York Sun.
Charged With Stealing.
Annie Morton. a negress. charged With
stealing forty dollars from one A. Wood