The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-06-20
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cuTLFFE HYNE. @f

| Omi2e overinSuranCe for? Why didn't
| you get the stuff underwritten slap VI
| to the strongroom OF the bank?"
ITO save G 500. IL you aren't going
past the middle OF the Mexican gulf
| what is the use OF wasting money by
| insuring further?"
Five hundred pounds in q deal OF
G600.O00! A mere straw in cart
load!' 3D..
"That my dear Mr.. Canbel. is bust
ness. AS l often assure my young
friends commencing life. IL one takes
care Of the pennies, the pounds take
care of themselves. 1t Is by looking
after what you are pleased to consider
trivial sums like these that the firm of
MarmadulSe Rivers e. Shelf has risen
to its present eninence."
"Oh, wind!" retorted Cambel Don't
tell me-"
'Sir!" eXclaimc- Shelf.
We'll, II you will have II, the emf
nence appears to be uncommon lottery,
and because Of your Internal mean
ness you're doing your best to bring
1t over. It's Just trifies like this that
tell. Consider what'll happen after the
catastrophe. There'll be an inquiry
thatll lay everything bare down to the
very bed plates. Do you think they
won't jump on this point at once? The
stuff's fully insured on up to New
Orleans. 1t isn't insured on the levee
and in the streets where the thefts are
notorious. Doesn't this drop an in
stantaneous hint that 1t was never in
tended to get so far?"
NO" said Shelf sourly. II don't
see that 1t does"
"Then," retorted Cambel, II differ
from you entirely, and as I'm to be the
active agent in this affair and have to
take the first and grayest physical risk
do not choose to have my retreat un-
necessarily hampered. must insist
upon your recalling Fairfax for ad-
ditional instructions. That extra in
surance has got to be paid"
Then pay 1t yourself"
That's outside the bargain. Work
ing expenses are your contribution to
the partnership. And besides for an
other thing couldn't plank down that
money If wished. l haven't 1T in the
world"
"Mr. Cambel, believe you. viii you
extend the same courtesy to me when
tell you that IL were to attempt rails
ing even such a trivial sum as $500
today 1t would precipltate me into
bankruptcy tomorrow"
"Whew! Are you nipped as badly as
all that?"
II have a remorseless drain on me
which drinks up the. profits of this
business like great sponge. 1t is a
domestic drain, and 1 cannot resist It,"
lou poor devil" said Cambel with
the first scrap Of sympathy he had yet
shown to his partner. II believe / un-
derstand, and 1t tones down your dingy
color. You aren't quite all black. be-
lieve by your own painting you're
among moderate sort of gray. And II
I've been beastly rude and hard with
you, because I've considered you a
soapy scoundrel playing entirely for
your own hand, I'll apologize to you.
That isn't in the least polite, but
think it's plain, and perhaps we shall
get on together better now. But about
this bankruptcy It'll be rather mess
II you go smash before our Florida
operation realize Its profits 1t will
thlcken the inquiry down to very un-
pleasant keenness" "
Il think shall keep on my feet, Mr.
Cambel, l trust, / pray, / shall, and,
moreover, / thank you for what you
have said. I do confess that your man
ner OF speech has wounded me much
at times"
"Oh, as to that" returned Cambel
Il say spade when l mean it, and
l don't care to mix religion with theft
when I'm talking with a conspirator,
But fancy we understand one another
more comfortably now, and I'll leave
you to make the rest of the arrange
ments here in London. This afternoon
LII PICK up hetue ana run down
to Liverpool and get things in hand
there. They'll require care. To begin
with, there's suitable armament to
be smuggled on board without adver-
tisement. And there are the nefarious
preparations to be made. Piracy on
the high seas is not a thing to be un-
dertaken lightly nowadays. Nor is a
murder!"
"oh, my Cod" cried Shelf. Don't
speak OF these horrors"
Il speak of Them" replied Cambel
grtmly, because 1t is right that you
should understand what will probably
be done. I don't intend to redden my
fingers IL 1t can be avoided, but as
l put my neck In jeopardy, failure or
no failure, l naturally don't intend to
hesitate at any action which will bring
unqualified success.
only understand fully, Mr.. Theodore
Shelf, that piracy you are already an
active sharer in, and lf there's mur-
der done to boot you will be as guilty
as the worst, even though you sit here
in your snug London offices while other
rougher men are handling pistol and
knife in the gulf or in a Florida man
grove swamp"