Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-12-24

have been referring to his own billiar
shot or to Mr.. Shells improving senti
ment.
"You see, Mr.. Cambel, from my posi-
tion, so many people look up to mo tina
it Is nothing short of my boundon duty t.
deprive myself of certain things and be, s,
far as possible, humble model for then
to form themselves by. Long before
constituency sent me to parliament / de
voted my best energies to christianizint
the lower classes and hope not withou
success. II appreciation is any criterion
may say that was elected president o
no less than IL Improvement societies.
took me much time and thought to atten
to them. Yet l wish l could have given
more"
THAT pocket does pull. There's regu
lar tram line toward it. Hin! Mighty
good work of yours. But doesn't it sour
on you sometimes? Don't you want day
off occasionally? A run down to Monte
Carlo, for instanceS'
Monte Carlo You horrify me, Mr..
Camhel. You are my guest, and cannot
speak strongly, but this is very poor jest
Of yours,
'Well, perhaps you know best about
that place. Monte Carlo is risky at the
best of time for some folks, because you re
bound to meet crowds of people you know,
and If they aren't on the razzle dazzle, too,
and pinned to diplomatic silence througl
their own iniquities some Of them are apt
to split when they get homo again But
! don know why you should be Mortified,
seeing that we are entire quatre yeux here
and not on one of your pious example
platforms. You know, you've been in q
far hotter shop than Monte Carlo Watch
me pocket that red. All, rouge perd-Bar-
celona to wit If you remember, you were
staying at the Quatro Naciones, and at
nights you used to cross the Rhambla,
and"-
My God, how did you know all this?"
do you remember Directing to take a
sheaf of obviously spurious notes, and
there was row, and somebody whipped
out a knife, and somebody else 1oored the
knifoman with a chair3"
~ uS-no."
after which you very sensibly bolted.
Well senior, had only just that moment
come in, but saw you We're fellow is
lander and that's why l handled the
chair. You don't remember me, and |
didn't know your name, but recognized
you the moment your wife introduced us
here because / never forget face"
You're mistaken. l never was in such
place in my life, sir. Think of the po-
sition occupy, Why, the things absurd"
Now, my good sir don't play Peter
here. I'm not gong to give you away. No
fear. Why should |? 1t would probably
ruin you, ant | should stand self convict
ed of having been in the lowest and most
desperate gambling hell in Europe with
out being made sixpence richer by the
transaction. Only you didn't know me,
and you thought didn't know you, and
I fancitd it would be handler II we were
open ahOus one another's little ways at
once fore we went on any further. Who
knows but what we might stand in at
some profitable business together Oh, see
thatl Bad fluke and an eight shot"
Mr.. Theodore Shelf stood before the fire
place and drew handkerchief across his
forehead with trembling fingers.
What business did you refer to?" be
asked ~ length.
"Nouc whatever. I'm not business
man. / make discoveries and don't know
how to use them. You IRE a business man
and may be able to see where the money
profit comes in. If you can, why, then
we'll share the plumber, Ii you cant,
we're neither Of us worse off than before.
But this is vague. What sort of dis
covericst Have you found a mine;'
mo, sir, in the present instance chan
mel F"
"A channel? don't tale you."
"A deep water channel leading up to
coast and in beyond it, where everybody
else supposes there l. nothing but shallow
water The Po'.Hncnt charts put down
the place as palily Unsurveytd, but all i'm
b,,.
coral, they say, is turning art Of the sea
into dry land. In large iJcasure this is
true but at one Point, which | have dis
covered, a river comes down from the in
terror, and tho sCOur Of this river has cut
a dorp arrow channel out through the
reefs to the deep sea water beyond"
in confidence, could you tell me where
this place ,2''
In confidence, I'll tell you 1t is on the
west coast of Florida--on the Mexican
gulf coast. The interior of southern Flor
ida is called the Everglades It's partly
lake, partly swamp built up of many
groves, saw grass, cypress trees and water
tenanted by snakes, alligators wild beasts
and a few Seminole Indians. Only one ex-
petition of whites has been across it--ur
rather only one expedition known to his
tory. But I've been there right into the
heart of tho Everglades--in fact, I've just
come from there, and ! Melted $1,000 out
Of the trip"
Howl" asked Shelf. IT
Never mind exactly how. That's part
~ another mans business. Shall we say
the other man gave me commissio..
here, and l carried it out and got dul !
paid? Anyway that's sufficient explaua-
ion. But what about this channel I've +
ound. If one gives it to the chart people,
hey'll simply say thank you and publish
FOUR name in one number of a professions !
magazine which nobody reads. / don't
tanker after fame of that kind. I've tho
ordid taste to much prefer dollars"
Shelf strobe forward and seized Cambgl I
" the arm. IF your channel and your
everglades will answer purpose l want
here's half amillion of English sovereign
o be made out of it,
Five hundred thousand pounds. {
'hewt' {
Hush! There's somebody coming. Bu5 9
It's to be had II you are not afraid OF !
little risk"
II fear nothing on this earth," said J
1ambel, when itG to my interest not to d!
ear. Moreover, though I'm not saint, 9
ny standard of morality is probably I
hade higher than yours. / don't mind l.
oing some sorts of dirty things, but there
re shades in dirtiness, and at some tint p
draw the line. It's dangerous to-er- c
ave the tips of these cues glued on SC IL