The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-31

on to this green stun myself for luck, if
you don't mind
THE Harvey Gaddis boy said something
about the heftiness of gold 10 carry
around but if Dusmore really wanted the
paper, why he'd leave IL there of course.
Then he waltzed in and soclIed il to Con $
game for Sl700 within an hour. Although
there We're four other men in the game
not another one of 'em had a thmbleful
of luck except the tenderfOot. Within half
an hour he had put Con an even $1,000 up
against H. and then he said he'd cash in
and drOD down TO Bird Man1eys for a bit
of faro.
IAN right. said Con. come back when
you smash Birds layout and Dinsmore
cashed the tenderfoors chips In double
eagles, holding on TO the 81 900 in treasury
notes, as he said he was going TO do.
THE cub won't over to Bird Manley's
faro layout, and beat It to the tune of
$500 Bird counted out $500 in double
eagles-the amount of the tenderfFots
original stake and his winnings-and the
night marshal and a couple of other boys
helped The cub pack the coin over to Joe
Conleys safe and then put the apparently
jagged descendant of the Gaddises to bed
In all, Joe Conley's safe contained 81 600
of his money in gold.
''The Harvey Gadds boy looked a bit
rocky when he showed up the next morn
in=.
SAY, what did you let me gamble for
last night?' he asked me when he met me
down town. Didn't you know that that
$4,000 ! received from father was to pay
for the mine?
Son said l. Tn not the sky pilot of
this camp. Moreover, you don't know the
difference between advice and a ton Of
coal
Why it was awfuIr the cub went on
Inc Of II fcrh no IN
going TO follow Buck Wingate right up to
Denver to-day and pay him that S15,-
600
That's a good scheme, said I, think
ing that Buck might as well have the
bundle as the tiger layouts, and l went
with him when he made for the express
office to order the express people to box
up the $500 in gold at Joe Conley's safe
He was out of the camp and bound for
Denver with his 81 500 box of gold coin be-
fore noon, and before more than half a
dozen of the boys in the camp knew he
was going after Wingate to pay him for
the mine. Dinsmore and ManIey, when
they heard of it, expressed natural regret
that he hadn't stayed on long enough to
give them a 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 ten
derfoot mine customer in Denver and got
the $4,000 bundle.
Why, them said Buck, with a look
of surprise on his face. has he left the
camc?
Went to Denver yesterday to pay you
for your hold on the ground-half On gold
and half in new coin"
Bird Manley was the first to smell
rat. He took the $50 and 500 bills that the
Harvey (H9Hhie how pi lov
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 fin
ger and then he tossed the mess of 81, 900
out through his little window to Manley
'"Phony stuff said the cashier and
poor article at that. How long have you
been good thing, Marley?
'Manley dropped by Con Dinsmore's
place and told Con of the thing. They were
a very tired-looking pair. The secret-ser-
vice man from the treasury department
who arrived in Creole about a week later
had us describe the tenderfoot. Then he
grinned
'Tenderfoot? said he. That fellow was
Hiram Blunden, who's been one of the
cleverest queer-shovers on this continent
ever since he was knee-high to grass
hopper. Pinkey Blundell we cali him.
Then we told him about that mining ex-
pert from Denver and described him.
That was Sassafras John Hudnut,'
said the secret-service man, and he too
has been showing 1t all his life But he's
not as good as Pinkey'
"A couple of days ago." concluded the
ex-sheriff of Creole, II read that Pinxey
BlundeIl had been gathered in down in
Little Rock for distributing some very tas-
" 81 silver certificates of the series of
$780,"