Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-08-02
CLEVER SCHEME
TROOP OF FALsITY OF SAYING
"HoNoR AMONG THIEVES"
Partner in Large Business Duped by
His Associate Into Buying Worth
less Mine-Case Of the
Bitter Bit.

His Associate Into Buying Worth
less Mine-Case Of the
Bitter Bit.
Honor among t~hievesl" a Wall
street broker snorted, contemptuous.
". "Of course, there isn't any. And
II doesn't matter whether one is talk
ing of common pickpockets or Of
those sharp fellows that-get their
money some other way.
Let me tell you an instance l heard
Of this afternoon. There are two
men who, while they are not partners,
have joint control of a large business.
Cne Of them got mixed up in a mining
company out west somewhere.
He put $4,000 into it before he
found out that it was no good. It
nearly made him sick abed when he
knew the truth, but he didn't say a
word to his associate.
"On the contrary, he suddenly be-
came absolutely non-communicative
about his mining venture; so much so
that his friend suspected that some
thing was up. Pretty soon Jones,
wen call him, the owner of the min
ing stock, began to ask the stenogra-
pher to stay after hours so as to die.
tate letters to the manager of the
mine. These letters he always in
sisted upon mailing himself after they
had been copied in a private letter
book which he kept locked in his W
particular safe.
Brown, his associate. noticed all
this and tried to pump the stenogra-
pher, but it did no good. One night
he had to return to his Office for some
paper that he had forgotten, and,
glancing around, saw Jones private
letter book lying on the table.
THE temptation was too much for
him and he took a hurried glance
through it. He saw numberless al
lusions to the discovery of a bonanza,
untold millions in sight; got to keep
it quiet until everything was arranged
and all the stock %corraIled, etc.
That was enough for Brown. He
never said a word to Jones next day,
but quietly, very quietly, went to work
and started to buy all the stock in
Jones mine that he could get hold
Of. He found that one curl broker
was the only one that seemed to know
anything about it and hat the stock
vas firm at above par.
Little by little he got the stock in
during the next four weeks. In all
thEt time he went down to the office
at night just "a times and found
Jones letter book carelessly left out
just twice.
Jones letters told the manager
that some one was trying to get con-
troll of the stock, accused him of bad
faith and so on. At any rate it con
firmed Brown in the belief hat he
was going to make a pot of money,
and he kept on buying mining stock
until he had about $50, 900 planted.
"He was beginning to get feverish,
but didn't dare ask his business as
sociate anything about the property
for fear of exciting suspicion. One
morning he got down to the office
late after a bad night of worry.
When he opened the door and said
good morning to Jones, Jones' face
was wresthed in smiles.
What's up?' says Brown. You're
as clipper as a spring lamb
Matter answers Jones, with a
gurgling laugh. You remember that
Mixed Ale Consolidated Mining and
Smelling company that / told you
about putting some money into awhile
ago? Well, l thought / was bumped
good and hard on that deal, and just
as l was about to write FINS: Good
by on the account in my private
ledger some sucker comes along and
little by little gets hold of all my
stock. l reluctantly parted with the
last share of it yesterday, and instead
Of being out $4,000 l am ahead just
$4,000 on the deal. More power to
him, whoever he is! / wish him joy
with his Mixed Ale
why. isn't the property all right?
"All right! Why, they put a shot
of dynamite in the pay streak awhile
ago and blew all trace of II into king.
dom come. About the only use that
the owner could make of the shaft
now would be to fall down it and
break his neck
Brown turned pale. He swallowed
hard a few times, turned on his heeI
without a word and entered his own
ONCE and slammed the door. | don't
know what he said or thought when
he was alone, but you can imagine
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