The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-08

Sutciine pulled out "a roll Of bills
ana peeled of two. Take it," he said
"a man feels better with money in his
pocket"
''Vhcn did he go up state?" he con-
unued.
''Vhue Father Two days ago--in
the morning"
Fourteen years long time,
sighed Sutclne. Il was in for six.
That's long enough for me. With the
allowance. though, he continued. hell
he out, say, i'm ten year. Your dad an
/ Travelled u-tcam for many year, an
say, do You know l came to him, just
as you've come TO me, years ago. An
1 said To him, Buck, you stood by n,e
an IN stand by young john an by
George. John, I viii. Now loOk-a-here
slttin' here I've been dom a lot O
thinllin an I want To taH yOu-But
say. what's the matter with me- What
YOU want is To eat. Here, it's been
waitin' for you. Sit down there an
eat it," he continued AN weH talk
3fterward. Not a word now. You eat
am I'll smoke
The one ate. the other smoked, I'M 81
leuce Sutciiffe gaZed long and earnest
ly on the young mans COuntenance. He
was not a bad-iOOkiug fellow. Young
that stood out in the air. Good eyes.
but bit too much shreWdness in them.
But stamped upon him. though only in
"a slight degree was that strange in
dehnable expression of face and man
uer that was stamped 80 an extent
much greater upon Sutclife, and upon
al men of that ilk-the innate indi-
Viduality of crime.
His face is a fortune To us, thought
Sutclifie. He's the very mantle
very man. Dawson" he said aloud. as
The other concluded his meal Il want
20 tell YOU something something I've
been thinking about for "a long time.
Now. see here, you're i'm this business
10 stay. / suppose you've about made
no your mind to that Lord. when I
think of your father before YOU and
YOUR grandfather before him, Your
family's a credit to you, young fellow,
let me tell you that.
Now look here he continued. I'm
goin' TO stake you for all you're worth.
an You'll find out before ] get
rbroueh lust how I'm gOin' to do It.
The big thing. Dawson, in our bust
ness. as YOU know, is 10 get the conf
dence of the people. It's great bust
ness but that's the greatest part Of II.
once get their confidence, and the rest
IS dead easv. Now look at me. No man
ever saw me dressed up IN my life.
Rough clothes rough voice, and rOuSh
manner. That's me. An what's more,
/ always had a shave the day before
Yesterday. Why, II 1 Went into man >
office. the first thing he'd think was
that I WAS tramp. In five minutes
he'd begin to understand that / didn't
care much what he thought. Say, IN
n week that man'd be pretty sure that
I was "A millionaire mine owner or
cattle king from the west. 1 looked it.
i tell YOU, and acted it. And there
wasn't a time, when l was after big
game. that / couldn't pat nay hand
down in my pants pocket and pull out
a roll like this. II necessary. Say, in
another week that man'd be running
after me. seekin' my favor, stead OF
me seekin' his When I got To that
STAGE of the game, you can place your
bottom dollar. Dawson, l could do busi-
ness with him TO my own satisfaction,
and have II all my own way In couple
more weeks or so I had him cleaned
out an he knew II. Those were my
methods Dawson. and there wasn't a
man before me that ever thought OF
playing the game az I played IL. And
those methods-say, where they failed
once they Won twice. Why, say,
you've heard about some Of them.
Look at that Burlngame affair, an The
Xsv L did young Stevenson, You
heard o. them.
He pulled for "a minute OF two Ia
silence. But / tell you, young John,
I'm out OF IL. They're on to my meth
DDS. and they're on To me, specially
since I went up. Say. there isn't a
dodge from Maine 10 Texas where L
wouldn't be spotted-that is. in any
thing worth while. But say, there was
a time when 1 would spend as long IS
year. or two year even, just iayin'
the foundation 20 &c. into Il mans con-