The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-12

be worth knowing; he pulled that bill off a
big roll. I'll get his name and write it
down. He's worth remembering.
ITS all coming your way. old fellow: just
go easy. You'll meet lots of chaps in this
bar and all you've got to do is pick the
best one and then work the thing out.
'Oh. Mr.. Gillespie, l wanted to ask you
IL you would care to come out with me in
the West End? l met a most delightful
man to-day-a really awfully nice fellow
aud he wants me 10 go cut TO his house this
evening. He lives out on the very edge OF
the city. We can take a carriage, don't you
know. and drive out there.
HAD DESIGNS ON GILLESPIE.
Damn that Gillespie. That's the fifth
time I've tried to get him to so out. and
he always snubs me eff. 1 am getting
sick of this business of working here for a
mere living. I'm going to get some money
soon or know the reason why not.
Il know what I'll do. I'll try to get in
with that housekeeper of Tom Aliens III
poison her against Gillespie Then she will
fight against his getting that saloon. ard
If she gets it. she will make me manager.
Then. in a few weeks. I'll have the whole
thing
No. If that woman says l said word TO
her against you, sir. she is lying. What!
Get out Of here. why. Mr.. Gillespie. what
have done. sir-take my hat and go. Well.
I'm out of it now, and the worst of it is
that I've got no money. Hold on. what was
that fellows name? Mccain. Yes. here's
his name: I'll go to see him.
Mr.. Mccain. Gillespie has acted like the
cur that he is. and has thrown me out pen
niless upon the world. 1 remember your
great kindness to me. sir. and if you would
be so kind TO give me shelter and food
for a few days I would endeavor TO repay
YOU.
DO? Why. surely nothing can be harder
for a gentleman such as l am than 20
stand before q common drinking bar. will
do anything around your house that you
wish me to do. Ordinary valet work If you
like. and you know that coming of such I
good family as 1 do, and having the high
connections that 1 have. it will not be like
having a common fellow in your house. 1
only wish this for q time. You see. in few
weeks l get thousand dollars from the
English Government, my pension; then i
have my suit against Cochrane, and all
that money will be coming in. Mr.. Nc
Cam, L can never thank you enough, sir;
you have saved me, and l will never for
get IT.
harrington goes to McCann's house with
only one idea. Mccain has money; has let
harrington see his roll not once, but
dozens of times. harrington fancies that
Mccain is wealthy. He knows that he has
know. but he does know that after an I'M
lucky spell at the races. Mccain could
simply go down to the bank and borrow
SOD Such mao must be wealthy. If only
he We're dead. how easy it would be to al
low this Kansas divorce suit go by default,
then ruin the widow.
Better still. if only she could get him out
Of the road, get him to run off with some
woman and. yes. OF course that's only talk,
but suppose he died and did not turn up
after death, and suppose the widow believed
that he had run away with another woman,
and that had fought against it-why. the
thing would be dead easy then: she would
get divorce for desertion, collar all the
money as he did not come back to claim it,
and there I'd be, and once 1 got my fingers
on the cid mans pile it would not be long
till l left the fair Mrs. Mccain to hunt
another husband. It's worth thinking over"
HARRINGTON HAD AN ACCOMPLICE
Darlington talks to a negro man:
Yes, he has big roll. and he carries it
all the time. The dirty dog. l hate kim;
wish he was dead. Now. you 'colored gen.
tlemen'> don't value life very highly. Why
do you not try to get that money?
Yes. l would help you, for 1 want re-
venge. Do you know. that fellow asked ME
to live with him; came ard begged me to
live with him: got me to give up my posi-
ton downtown. where l was making $50 a
week Just by talking to persons and taking
little drinks with them. and as soon as he
had me helpless because 1 was poor, he
made me, actually me. lord, black his
shoes and sweep out the rooms.
why, l viii gladly help !3u to do him