Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-10-25
Copyright, BY LOthroD Publishing Company.
CHAPTER XXL-CoNr1NuEp.

ChAHIEh AAL-CONTINUED
Exactly. You can hear anything
you're looking to hear, down there.
But tell you this was straight Don't
you suppose Shepler knows what he's
about?-there's a boy that won't be
peddling shoe laces and gum-drops off
one Of these neat little bosom trays
not for eighty-five or ninety thousand
years yet--and Relpin, even IL he was
drunk, knows Shepler's deals like you
know Sklplap. They'll bear the stocks
all they can while they're buying up.
l wouldn't be surprised IL the next
Consolidated dividend was reduced.
That would send her down a few
points and throw more stock on the
market. Meantime, they're quietly
workin' TO get control of the European
mines-and as to Western Trolley and
Union Cordage-say, helpin actually
got to crying-they're so good-he had
one Of those loving ones, the kind
where you want to be good to every
one In the world. I'm surprised he
didn't get into sandwich sign and
patrol Broadway, giving those tips to
everybody"
Course, we're on a proposition now
that you know more about it than l
do; you certainly do take right hold
at once-that was your pas way, too.
Daniel j. could look farther ahead in
a minute than most men could in a
year. I got to trust you wholly in
these matters, and know l can do It,
too. got confidence in you, no mat
ter what other people say. They don't
know you like do. And if there's any
other things you know about fur
sure"
well, there's Burman. He's plung-
ing in corn now. His father has
staked him, and he swears he can't
lose. He was after me to put aside
million. OF course If he'does win out
It would be big money"
well, son l can't advise you none
except know you have got head on
you, no matter how people talk You
know about this end of the game, and
I'll have to be led entirely by you. II
you think Burman's got a good propo-
sition, why, there amt anything, like
Settin' action all along the layout,
from ace down to seven-spot and back
to the king card"
That's che talk. I'll see Relpin to-
day or tomorrow. I'll bet he tries to
hedge on what he said. But got him
too straight-let drunken man alone
for telling the truth when he's got 1t
IN him. Well start in buying at
once"
at does sound good. / must say
you take hold OF it considerable like
DanI ]. would "a done-and use my
money jest like your own. l do want
to see you takin' your place where
you belong. This life of idleness you
been leadin'-one continual potlatch
the whole time-it want doin' you a
bit of good"
Wen get action, don't you worry.
Now let's have lunch downstairs, and
then go for a drive. It's too fine a day
to stay in"
Percival confessed to his mother
that night that he had wronged Uncle
Peter.
THAT old boy is all right yet" he
said, with deep conviction. Don't
make any mistake there. He has big
ger ideas than gave him credit for.
1 suggested branching out here in a
business way, to-day, and the old fell
low got right in line. If anybody tells
you that old Petite Bines hasn't got
the leaves Of his little calendar torn
of right up to date you just feel wise
inside, and see what odds are posted
on it,"