Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1905-09-09
CHAPTER X1x.--(Continued)

"Well," said Harvey, "I'm leaving ev-
erything, and don't know why or
wherefore. leave 1t to you, but don't
you think II time you let me know some
thing definite3'
you may think me crazed, I dare
say" said Jethroe, but I have what
amounts to fixed belief that IL speak
my secret before the time I shall never
live to profit BY It. You shall know all
In good time, and meantime you've only
got to believe that I mean well by you.
I tell you, Harvey, I'm going to make
you the wealthiest man In the world. In
six months We can be back, prepared to
buy up the Rothschilds between us. and
when I'm gone you'll have my share as
we'll as your own. There won't be nm
Emperor. my lord, who'll take airs with
Harvey Jethroe the younger"
Jethroe had booked himself for the
voyage as Richardson. and had entered
Harvey under an alias also. lie had
purposely chosen boat by which he had
never sailed before. His confidence In
his disguise was shaken. but he was pre-
pared to face any and all suspicious
with perfect cffrontery. 1t would have
been a strong likeness indeed. which
would have convicted him against the
absolute sang froid of the denial with
which he was ready. As It Glanced. he
was not called upon for the denial at
all. There was a steward aboard the
boat with whom he had Travelled upon
another line, and who from time to time
locked at him curiously. But II the stew
asd ever allied Jethroe and Richardson
n his mind at all, he must have dismiss.
Cd the fancy instantly, for the Mr.. Jeth-
roe he had known was q power In the
State, and q man reputedly made Of
money, and why on earth should mill.
lonaire have disguised himself and gone
under an alias?
The voyage passed without adventure.
TIE landing was a. uneventful: the jour.
Hey up country passed without recOgni.
ton or incident which calls for narration.
But at last the two arrived at a station
with great hills rising on the far horizon.
and they passed the night at weather.
board shanty Of a hotel with roof Of
corrugated zinc, on which rain shower
played n laundering concerto as they lay
abed. Before they slept Jethroe had been
abroad bargain making. and in the morn
Ing there were two wiry saddle horses
at the door. and baggage cart laden
with all manner Of bags and boxes. with
four outstanding mules harnesscd to II. a
halfbreed had charge Of the cart. and
the small cavalcade started In the cool OF
the day.
Nobody In the sleepy township seemed
to have noted either their coming or
going. Those who had been approached
In the way of business had done their
little bit Of trade and had thought no
more about It. As to the business Of the
travellers. whence they came and whittier
they were bound. there was no more in
terest in them than IL they had been a
pair Of house flies. They came, they
went ont into the desert unregnrdcd.
There were hundred places to which
they might have been going. and the
people who made up the township did
not care whether they were going tn them
all, or driving out TO die In the wilder
ness.
This absolute Indifference suited Jcth
roe to admiration. Nothing could have
suited his purpose better. and he mount
ed In high good humor.
els the time yet here?' asked Har
vey, rs they faced the vast prospect OF
the Wilderness. which would have seem
ed intcrminable but for the blue barrier
Of the hills miles and miles away. can
to know on what wise errand am 60
mgr
SHOWS the time!' cried JethrOe. GIVE
taken pains TO know that our guide be
hind US doesn't speak word Of Eng
lish. and here, at least, we're pretty SAT,
from listeners. All the same. wen rid,
out Of earshot. ] shouldn't he In the
least surprised to learn that one Of thu
very mules was Little William In dis
guisc."
He put In spurs and galloped for som,
two or three hundred yards, and Harve,
followed his lead.
"Now," said Jethroe, turning on hin
with a glittering eye, II can tell you
sim taking You, Harvey, to what poo
old Zelkar christened Diamond river, I
place compared with which Sinbad's val
ley was not circumstance"
"Who was Zelkari" asked Harvey
he was nightly little moved as yet.
'.Zelkar," returned his uncle. twas ,
Hungarian Jew, who was famous In hi
day as a chess player and now famous
still a. q constructor Of chess problems
He was not the discovercr Of Diamond
river. and no never saw II, but he wa
IN u Sort OI WY Tue CuGOuiCIeT uuu carlo
srapher Of It. Let me begin at the be
ginning.
"Game Wiley first came out to Brazil
years and years ago-lOng before m!
dine. The natives were thorough. goinl
savages then, but Wiley got along witt
'em well enough, and he was In this re
gion of aud on for three years. Got dow
TO the coast twice In all that time. Sec
ond time he was there-back to som
sort Of wild approach to civilization--h
meets a fellow by the name Of Raster
who was on the point of sailing for Eu
rope with the very first big damon,
ever found In Brazil. is this diamond O
yours In the roughY says Wiley to Kas
ter. Yes says Raster; but it's a fin
big stone and It bids fair to be worth
lot o. money i should like to look a
It, says Wiley, and Raster makes no nd
about the matter at all. but Just unpack
his kit and shows Wiley the stone. 'Yo
don't mean TO say that things dia
nondY says Wiley. But l do, rather
Gays Raster. WELL says Wiley, II
have q spell up country and come bac
and buy out tho Rothschilds. kno,
where there's thousands of EN- Kaste
argued that II was easy to mistake
diamoud--that 10. for an ignoramus lik
Wiley, who knew nothing In the worl
and cared for nothing In the world bu
big game shooting--but Wiley stuck I
It. lie knew the bed Of dried-up rive