The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1905-10-26
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YOU II ftlllt " llii
NO. | won't, thanks. Luck on the
hotel. for one thing. And, besides, I'm
going to see it out here. I'm not going
To let those ScoundrelS think they We
scared me OF course they deny all
knowledge of these outrages. and II
would be impossible to father them on
Hatton Garden. Indeed, Levenstein
| has nj this moment Il libel suit pending
against me for an open letter wrote
to him on the subject But there's not
the smallest doubt that that's what
they're after"
But my good fool they've oceans
OF money, and If they 80 on long
enough they're bound to bag you at
! last"
"My dear McIIinnie, they won't go
on. They'll get my ultmatum tomor-
row morning That points out that the
working details of my invention are
written upon paper and bestowed In
safe keeping elsewhere. In the event
/ of my death that pthy Ms. will be
| forwarded to Printing House square
and form n column of very interesting
reading in the Times newspaper next
morning 70 every one above the grade
| of cpStprmongcr that disclosure would
| be the sensation Of the century"
quite SO. What figure do YOU charge
for leaving things ms they were"
~ pension of t200.O0O year so long
as | keep the recipe to myself. Tomor-
4 row morning they'll know of this and
I the conditions. and they'll he bound to
| accept Tonight they don't know, and
! SO assassination still strikes them as
4 sound business But ms | say, tomor-
] row thcrc'l hc Il meeting of the availa-
/ bile chiefs of the ring. and they'll snap
up my terms. I'm dirt cheap ut the
/ price Thcyll have To screw that GOO,
UOO per uunum out of the diamond buy
/ ing public for a good many years To
come vet You see, they wouldn't cut
short the pens oh Ivy Staying me. he
/ cause. ipSo frcto. they would smash
. their own trade by doing it, As Il very
necessary | f. Insurance | naturally
/ stick to the publication clause in the
/ new >pHpcr IN the day of my death. So
! | fancy. Irllinnic. I've got that dia.
moAd ring as nicely on toast rs ever
yet hluckmailcr"-
\ crash and a binding explosion cut
short Macdouald'S sentence The far
Their wall OF the place swept bodily to-
ward us in a whirlwind of smoke and
4 flames, and rs the blast Smotc me on
1 the head life appeared to tear itself
away with a jolt and II Jerk
/ . 1t was by very marvel of marvels
that in that moment we were not
Transmitted to the clay whereof our
corpOrcal bodies were formed. Moth
ing but the tank had saved us But the
advancing breath OF the explosion had
driven us over the brink and the wa
/ ter had acted rs Il cushion against the
/ shock 50 violent had been the power
/ Of the bomb thrown against il that of
the building nothing remained but n
scattered mound of dusty rubble.
By their agents the diamond ring h2tl
lifted their hands against Macdonald
with lust 10 Stay, and by their agents
the same cOteric drew his unconscious
I form ANA mine also out of the chilly
lll VII Va iilbl Nbl'i lUllh IN ~ 'llll
ous irony Mr.. i.cvcuStcn was the first
person to bring MS assistance He had
just arrived n Ea,=. y -.,c,ial train
To- say 1ltl tlp.lr .l lJr the t2oo, 600
/ annuity VIZ. agrr3 lo. | have never
seen amy on" ~t ~ lsNc'y genial aud
civil rs Nh I.cNcu>triu mad" himself
while ne attcnd, 80 our pllysical needs
after that explosion.
The process Of hlosSomiug ol;t into n
man Of means was one | did not see.
a., the French were going up to Tim
/ hul>m Just then and | wanted to 90
with them 20 see whether the place
really existed or whether ii was only
Il maguicd joke, As il turned out.
the ucighhorhood proved intensely in
/ tcrpStug So | stayed there a longish
time, and when got back To England
again Macdonald lad quite settled
down to the new order Of things
That tank. the only creature comfort
Of his working days, was Il forcruuncr
Of what is Che mans abiding place now
II that he hlS come into enormous wealth
Ou tho tank of his more stable resi-
dcncc ne las built him a huge house Of
glass and filled II with palms and bat
names and palmcttos and other tropical
foliage plants and ferns lhcr" is no
method or order in their placing. nor
are there concrete walks about the
place Some of the floor is soft short
grass, the rest water winding in deep.
narrow channels in and out of the
islcts of foliage. TIA" temperature stays
in the eighties
Here conrad Macdonald, in the gurb
that nature gave him, basks and swims
and dives for six hours of the day and
mcditAtcs over IN alrShip built on nat
ural principles He studies the flights
of birds and butterflies and insects
which skim and lluttcr in the warm
mir around him, but tin now he has
made no practical effort TO put his Oh
scwationS into shape. Yet | think he
viii make tlat arship
If you don't know Macdonald ana do
not believe this tale, 20 round to Hat
tom Garden aud ask any diamond mcr
chant there how much he pays toward
Conrad Macdonald's pension. He may
WAY eloquent, but the odds are he re
Trains from giving 4 civil reply.