The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-05-14

Inc OLD Durse-prOuu 1901! nOnOre0 Dy
his daughters %suitor! As II I.would lounge
away hours That mean dollars to me In his stiff
old drawing room. lust to hear his everlasting
drone about stocks up and stocks down; and
politics gone all wrong, He has heard that
lieve | half like that girl, and when ] think she
has Il million In her own right, Damn II. II
sent. / will carry her oil. with only her own.
She's worth the effort. doubly worth 1t. and
when | have her and her m~oney-eh! Who
lie had seen sveetwater at last. which, was
not strange. seeing that he had turned his
What are you doing here, and who let you
New bedford, You have forgotten, sir: you
babe me to follow you.".
It vas curious rinoUu - to t, see the menace ImG Slowly die e
us he met S~weetwater's. calm eve and una
Dashed front, and noticed. as he had not done
at first; The slip OF paper which the latter teso-
moan New Beh II 9 d.. A. i iTon ,b Campbell aD6 i, I SUP saS
shook with rage. now trembied with what
seemed n very different sor. of emotion, as he
took tho slip, cast his eyes over it. and then
looked back at Sweetwater.
Now. Sweetwater knew the two words writ
ten on thHt PAPER, He could see out Of tn"
able to make out these words when the man
In fsw Bedford was WHITING ), them hem ,,o cc,ro.
Not much sense IS in ;hiem singly or in con-
junction: but the Captain, mntterinE them over
seemed to md. a clue to their meaning. Il
for in another instant he turned on Sweet
water With a sour look and LAUNDERING path.
There Il another word" returned Sweet;
It's worth. Just s25."' i've earned it. sir /
game " from New Bedford on purpose to de-
Sweetwater expected a blow. but he only got
a stare.
tain nT"s s#yii, i,.s s%O I a Il n %uf t t Ss1. 'h b. G asd
SaIGs are reo yo% %ps he SnT nsksa' Not one OF Camp
Ing, a nam: for h!ms eefTf''"SSif ca IN messages es ages
Twenty-hve dollars is the price o.. this job
me- 80 Ro f9% h'E blus n t d"s sh e0 0thef 81 Win l9h,V am at.
tempt to hide some serious, emotion. Why.
man. what do you fear? Don't you see I'm
"Twenty-nve dollars" repeated Swcetwater.
you going dns' to have hteT the II What's 18Th the y; w "Ter'
But Sweetwater wasn't going to be caught
&c. Q. D." he insisted firmly, standing his
now fall. But. no.. the Captain laughed. and
which he managed deftly enough to draw out
s shs' taS S}.i'lb but I EssPinr ; gne H lSaf ;ny ylRGr 5SS% t I'm
Swee,water laid his own hand on the bills.
."Ah?' said the other thouehtfully. lifting
his finger and proceeding to stride up and
says he will do. Two thousand dollars and
soon, too. / warrant; Well, I'm in a devil Of a
fix at last" He had again forgotten the pres
Suddenly he turned or rather stopped. His
eye was "a on The mefs.ngsr but he did not even
Other u he cried. 1t" "ifs' the oniy ioop hole outs
and, he threw himself into a chair from which
He'had hurt his wounded arm.
Pandemonium reignsd then for a minute.
under the fascination of the spectacle offered
him, had only Just succeeded in finding the
knob OF the door This time there was rec
Wat. he cried. Il may have use for you.
too. Confidential MESSENGERS are hard to
P!loy; ST down there. Illtalk to YOU when
command.' business was booming with
like a charm upon him; There SCENE to be
such a curious way near his heart.
Meanwhile the Captain reseated himself
Of procedure to think out. or SO it seemed. for
he sat a long time in rigid imm9bility. with
his brow 1 to show the nature Of his tho"gh 1n
Then he drew a sheet Of rapsT toward him
and snTba sfg aHsr to ,b Tri Isttar le elS ,bd He 9o WAS 80 , H6,
q it. having but one hand to work with. that
s%weetwatTeEE dGtsrmi hnot G3S9n a ha1@rdoHs
furnished him with a key to those two
Jar from him. having feen flung from
It's owners hand during the moments Of
passion and SUFFERING; TO reach this book
finally. TO get hold Of il with his hand was not
difficult for one who aspired to be a detective.
and had already done some good work in chat
leaves and find the words he sought without
attracting the, attention Of his fierce com
punion. He. however. succeeded in doing
this at last. the long list OF words he found on
every page being arranged alpha b~etically. 1t
messages: and he soon found that "hanpe9-
Ing" meHnti t4ur little tie game 8nm dis dhiscCysTedd;
hhn Iny t isae'fAA Afr sfla E'ye STOOD sS% TOE for %%l hns ii
money" As the latter was followed by the nG;
n6e sx I;G1Ti in9 P but the V %o tlde ! mfesnEf Ree diIl
so wos he eo te IA ibs n6 f0T th Tb,| C s w, t" n ana dn that otI it
we'll known between the,h and was that 81
the person. no doubt. who laid claim to the
satisfied at holding this clue to the riddle.
he. dropped the hook again at his side and skill
who took in only ono hing at a time.
la6orionsly The nepninE Of that letter wen.
'i' ''.ON . w 'D'~ '"'t ~ ,crSt VI
pretended 70. and when it was at last done. the
clock over the maDtelpiece had struck ..
'Halloo. there. now suddenly shouted the
CAPTAIN. turning on the messenger. Are you
ready tor another lourneyy'
Tina depends" smiled Sweetwater. ris-
ing sleepily and advan ling. Haven't got over
the last one yet. and would rather sleep than
start out again
oh, you want pay? Well. you'll get that
fast enough. II you succeed in your mission.
This letter'-he shook II with an i'm patient
hand-'should be worth $4,000 to me. II you
bring me back an anwer promising that money
will give you a clean hundred OF 1t. Good
enough pay. ! take 1t, for five hours journey.
Better than sleep. eh? BESIDES, you can sleep
on the cars"
Sweetwater agreed with him In all these as
s~ertions. Putting'on his CAD. he reached for
the letter. lie didn't like being made an in
strument for ~hlackmail,. but he was curious to
see to whom he was about to be sent. But
the Captain had grown suddenly wary.
This is not Il letter to he dropped in the mail
box" said he. You brought me n limo here
whose prompt delivery has prevented me from
making a fool of myself tonight. You must
do as much with this one. II is to be carried
to its detination by yourself. given to the per
son whose name you will find written on II,
and the ANSWER brought back before you sleep.
mind you. unless YOU snatch a wink or so on
the cars. That i. is night need not disturb
you. II will be daylight before YOU arrive at
the place to which this is addressed. and il