The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-06-26
up. ..Well. ] must say you tellers anal us

UP. "Well. I must say you fellers did us
UP in great shape
You giff us goot scrap" said the eX-
revenue officer, reaching out his hand.
i Tho Irishman srasped IT with great
4 warmth. There was mutual admiration
! IN that handshake.
Say" asked Jack, with Intense inter-
lest, .'cat you tcll@ine Just who it. was put
the Chief onto us? III swear 1t wasn't
All Sam. ! vas told it was him, but Us
.'Yes," said the German, ~ can tell you
all about It. Id vas clerk in de Ameri-
can Consulate in Victoria. He was on
to you fellers ven you had dc Fairy reg
istered unter American coors, and MS
brother vas IN de ring, So he. wrote his
i brother. and his brother put kalakua
Who's the brother?" asked Jack. be-
! tween his teeth.
| Lou Davis"
There was establishment, excitement,
intense interest in that one word, but not
a yestiEe OF anger, 4, !,
daz Yau w dSn VIII s sH@n n e 'a Weua
/ thought & that
Well say" interrupted Bob, impEa-
tlenty here You two lellers gre ra akin
IN? Come on. Jack. let's have your yarn
from the beginning"
40, sAye III i,ays H. enorused the rest
rs Eyes e g. Ja itaS" said the German, go
fahet. dots . goot story. told it myself
many times. ~. -
several Vigorous puffs, as though to prime
himself. All hands edged up a trifle
closer, for Jacks voice was low and
sWell,". he began. %as !; / said. y while "a !
money There were five Of Us that Ia hh Y y
togetnerawo q4qrterhssers 5He bny
the stuff in Frisco for eleven dollars q
pound and sell it II Honolulu, 10, for forty 1.t
ana fy ana sSty there
mind We. While we FIVE didn't belong TO
the Ring, we We're solid with the hlnG .
officers Just the same.
Here the German gave q. low Gurgllns
laugh to himself.
at the end of a year ia scraped TO-.
gether two. thousand dollars. anS my ny
put our heads together and decided tha at
what we needed was expansion. and the
Zealanda was getting too small i2r Ms W..
fhe ste pP We or Thee
[ bought the sloop which later, became ia
nous or notorious, as you please sa n I1a
Generally gen ' sells two two or three dollars cheap
4 er in Victoria than in Frisco, SO we went
there and loaded up quarter Of ton.
had It AL in tins nsb hans nf
| the revenue officers fished their lnspcc-
J ton Then We set sail as a pleasant
4 little yachting party. "A cIdp calleu Ny
Inns and I played the travelling swells,
Say, It was funny to SEQ us, the way we
logged up. and p,1, ,t the airs we put on, II
Our first trip was a cinch. We landed
the stuff on the east side OF oahu, not
4 the least trouble. and then sailed Into
4 Honolulu next day. The Chinaman tool
1t off our hands at $50, and We cleared
$4,000 between US. Now, there's where
I'VE should have been satisfied and nobody
would have bothered us b o ", we sS Mer1
to Victoria and loaded up with half q
'0''Now ye want to understand tha
opium is entirely barred from the islands
i wasn't enforced for tho peoples benefit,
4 not on yonr life, but to give certain
1 ring OF government officials and leading
! merchants a chance 10 do some quiet
business on tho SIDE Well, after our first
little expedition the market went down
$40 and, It was two weeks before i came
UP. And they found out just what had
| happened. So naturally they determined
to stop our business And they were
right--liye and let live-we Were trying
| To hog IT.. ] neTer bore old Dave Kala-
Ikaua any grudge for what he did. He
had as much right in the game as we
$50 when we left Victoria they knew
LIT by the next mail boat from Frisco,
land the Royal Hawaiian navy and reye-
nue. service had orders to keep sharp
! lookout for us t5
1 Eve made a splendid passage and sight y
| ed Oahu about noon one day, 1t wasn't
/ our Intention 10 land before morning OF
till AFTER lnidnight, anyhow, SO we stood