Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-06-06

buster and monkey wrench. III play
you fifty up"
MIR. Shelf put up q large White hand.
mo. no, l don play billiards myself.
So many young men have been ruined
by the pursuit that / refrain from 1t
by way OF setting an example. But
my friends who visit here are not so
scrupulous. and l have the table for
them"
'Beau-tiful," said amb He might
have been referring to his own billiard
shot or to Mr.. Shells improving senti-
ment.
You see. Mr.. Cambel, from my po-
sition. so many people look up to me
that it is nothing short of my bounden
duty to deprive myself of certain
things and be. so far as possible. a
humble model for them to form them
selves by. Long before a constituency
sent me to parliament i devoted my
best energies to c"hriStianizing the low
er classes. and l hope not without sue
cess. III appreciation is any criterion, l
may say that | was elected president OF
no less than twelve Improvement So
~ciei!es. 1t took me much time and
thought To attend to them. Yet L wish
| could have given more"
That pocket does pull. There's a
regular tram line toward 1T. HIM!
Mighty good work of yours. But doesn't
it sour ON you sometimes? Don you
want a day off occasionally? A run
uoWu W NloItc AdTlc, lOT llSldIte.
Monte Carlo. You horrify me. Mr..
Cambel. You are my guest. and l IN
not speak strongly, but this is a very
poor Jest of yours"
Well, perhaps you know best about
that place. Monte Carlo is risky at the
best of time for some folks, because
you're bound to meet crowds of peo-
pie you know, and if they aren't on the
razZle dazzle. too. and pinned to diplo-
matte silence through their own in
EQUITIES some of them are apt to split
when they get home again. But l o II
know why you should be mortified,
seeing that we are entire quatre yeuX
here and not on one of your pious eX-
ample platforms. You know, you've
been in a far hotter shop than Monte
Carlo. Watch me pocket that red.
All, rouge perd-Barcelona to wit. If
you remember. you We're staying at the
Quatro Naciones. and at nights you
used to cross the Rhambla, and
did You know all this?'
ID you remember objecting to take
a sheaf of obviously spurious notes, and
there was a row and somebody whipped
out a knife, and somebody else floored
the knifeman with a chair?!"
"YeS-no."
"After which you very sensibly bolted.
Well. senior. l had only just that mo-
ment come in, but l saw you We're a
fellow islander, and that's Why ham
WV WV it IOu dCilI
me, and | didn't know your name, but
l recognized you the moment your wife
introduced us here. because l never for
get a face"
You're mistaken. I never was in
such a place in my life. sir. Think Of
the position l occupy. Why, the things
absurd"
Now. my good sir, don't play Peter
here. I'm not going to give you away.
No fear. Why hould L? 1t would
probably ruin you. and l should stand
self convicted of having been in the
lowest and most desperate gambling
hell in Europe without being made q
siXpence richer by the transaction. Only
you didn't know me. and you thought
| didn't know you, and ! fancied 1t
would be handler if we We're open about
one another's little ways at once before
we went on any further. Who knows
but what we might stand in at como
profitable business together? oh. see
that! Bad luke and an eight shot"
Mr.. Theodore Shelf stood before the
fireplace and drew a handkerchief
across his forehead with trembling fin
gers.
What business did you refer to? he
asked at length.
None whatever. I'm not a business
man. ! make discoveries and don
know how to use them. You're a bust
ness man and may be able to see where
ll1e money DTOIC comes III. IL you CALL
why. then we'll share the plumber. If
you amt we're neither of us worse Off
than before"
But this is vague. What sort of
discoveries? Have you found a mine?''
mo. sir. in the present instance a
channel"
"A channel? l don take you"
- deep water channel leading up
to a coast and in beyond it. where ev-
erybody else supposeS there is nothing
but shallow water. The government
charts put down the place as partly un-
surveyed. but all impossible for naviga-
ton. The upgrowth of coral. they say,
, is turning part of the sea into dry land.
2 In n large measure that is true, but at
one point. which I have discovered. a
river comes down from the Interior, and
= the scour of this river has cut a deem
l narrow channel out through the reefs
to the deep sea water beyond"
l I'm confidence could you tell me
:, where this place is?"
: I'm confidence. I'll tell you 1t is on
Y the west coats of Florida-on the Next
can gulf coast. The interior Of south
i ern Florida is called the Everglades,
It's partly lake, partly swamp, built up
of many groves. saw grass, cypress
e trees and water. tenante by snakes.
aliigators. wild beasts and a few Sem
;. mole Indians. Only n expedition of
whites has been across tor rather
only one expedition known to history.
e But I've been there. right into the heart
; of the Everglades-in fact, I'VE tust
e come from there. and 1 netted $1,000
out of the trip"
"How?" asked Shelf.
(; Never mind exactly how That's
8 partly another mans business. Shall
we say the other man gave me a com
s mission there. and 1 carried it out and
: got July paid? Anyway that's a sufi-
d cient explanation. But what about the