The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-13

nlarl1s as if to ma Ike sure.
open it!'' - 80
~ keys were procurable; the owners
sLorns said, had long since left the docks.
But Lorns suggested thai he get hammer:
and cold chisci from the ship.
The trunk was opened and found free
and innocent or aught contraba nd The
chief Wore a puzzled, dark look; he felt
that he'd been cheated, but he couldn't
say how. Therefore, being wise, thu chief.
gulped, said nothing, and asElife5l Is snort.
and he had many things to do. soon after
left the docks and went his way.
THAT was, q squeak!''E said Lorns when
we were at last free of the dangerous
a grin; edo as much for me sometime
chief "Quin, I thank you.''
That's all right retorted Quin. with
our trunk. jettisoned by the excellent Quin
was fished UP; and being tight as a dram
its contents had come to little harm VII, n
silk trunks.holding a treasurer Of thirty
thousand dollars and whereon we looked
to clear heavy profit-were safe in the
which had been beating at double speed
since that almost fatal interference SLOW
ed to normal count.
One might now suppose that our woes
were at an end ALI danger over. and not
ing to do but dispose of our shtmmerinE
cargo to best advantage. Harris and 1
were of that spirit-liftng view. we pc:
for customers.
Harris whose former smuggling ex-
ploits had dealt solely with gems. knew
expert we might have, foreseen a COM.
ing peril into whose arms we in, our
blindness al but walked No; my chill me-.
dren, our troubles We're not vet done. we
had escaped the hgulfing suck OF.
Charybdis, only to be darted upon by
those six grim mouths Of her sister mons
ROY Nn
Well do recall that morning had
seen but two possible purchasers of silks
when Harris overlook me. His eye shone
with the 'ncws-however. he himself dis
covered it.. I never know-that another
gulf was yawning. Harris hurried me to,
lars.
1T seems said Harris, quite out of
breath with the speed we'd made in
lar brands of silk which. we've brought
in: SOMEONE to whom We've offered them
this moment and as we sit here, every
detective belonging to Stewart and for
all may guess. the whole Central office
find who has these silks; and how they
came in; since the customs records show
no such importations: And there's a. dark
has it's peculiar, individual selvage Each
with sample of its selvage is registered
at the home looms. Could anyone get a
snip Of a sewage he could return with it
book Just when it was woven, when sold.
and and to whom: I can tell YOU one thing"
e obMerved Harris ,; as he Concluded his
How the cold drops spangled my
hrowS; I began to wish with much heart
Trinity churchyard day, of Cornbury and
his devious smuggling methods of gath
ering wealth.
H nhsre NOV was b oIc raX Of hope neither
the whereabouts or quantity of the silks;
and as each had been dealing with folk
with whom he'd never before met, we
were we ever solved Harris and kept
of the streets during daylight hours for
a full month: we We're not utterly. idle:
trimming away that telltale selvage.
referring safety to profit,3wc put forth
no efforts to realize on our speculations
arts siks?" had ceased TO to disturb b'f tne
local merca ntie world and the grand pro-
on over 1t. AT last we crept. forth like
felons-as of good sooth! we were-and
disposed Of our mutilated silks to certain
Palestine. These beaky gentry liked bar
gains, and We're in no wise curious: they
6 6ongh5 IT our 2,, wares without lifting an eye
ed-though with that had no concern
those long circulars so-cailed. Which
were the feminine Joy a third of a. cen
what with delays, \what with expenses
what with figures reduced to dispose Of
our plumber, we got evenly out. We got
s eae X, our money; but for those fear
s s,la,a hours ct two separate perils, we
E 20, myself: I struggled no more: Still.
did not relinquish my pious purpose to
despoile that public treasury Egvptian
q t,I heretofore Neither did I give up
the Customs as rich theatre of illicit
endeavor: Only my methods changed T
now decided that /: myself. would be-
COME an Inspector, like unto the useful
Lorns, and make nv fortune from the
opulent inside: I procured the coveted
appointment for I could bring mower to
bear ,! and some future day I'll tell You Of
. ~ ne k5mperors Cigars 1.-THE Diamonds
Of the Girl from Berlin as we'll as INV
tllibusterer Ryan. went out Of Port" in
each OF which adventures of our Gus
toms. some splendid, though twilight.
preys were made. -. e7 ~
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