Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-08-02

send me check"
Not on your life." replied Healey
with laugh. The suckers we
trimmed gave checks. and turned
EN- into cash as soon as the banks
opened wasn't any too spry. either.
TWO of the damned sneaks consulted
lawyers as soon as they sobered on,
and tried to stop payment on their
checks. They're threatening proceed.
ings. You must take the dough away
with you. and don't want a receipt"
Trimming suckers. eh?" said |, not
able to decide what to do.
Their fathers stole 1t from the pub
lie" he explained They're drunken
little snobs. not fit to have money.
I'm doing public service by relieving
them of it. If I'd got more, I'd feel
that much more"--he vented his light,
cool, sarcastic laugh-"more patri-
otto"
Il can't take 1t" said |, feeling that.
In my present condition, to take it
would be very near to betraying the
confidence of my old friend
They lost 1t in a straight game.
he fastened to assure me. Il haven't
had brace box or crooked wheel for
four years" This with a sober face
and twinkle in his eye. But even
If | had helped chance to do the good
work OF teaching them to take care
of their money, you'd not refuse me.
Up town and down town, and all over
the place, what's business, when you
come to look at it sensibly, but trad
ing stolen goods? Do you know man
who could honestly earn more than
ten or twenty thousand a year-good
clean money by good clean work."
Oh, for that matter, your moneys
as clean as anybody's," said l. But
you know I'm Spectator, Joe.
have my downs-and this happens to
be stormy time for me- II take
your money, mayn't be able to ac-
count for il or even to pay dividends
on it for-maybe a year or So"
Wits all right, old man. I'll never
give 1t thought till you remind me
of it. Use it as you'd use your own
I've got to put it behind somebody's
luck-why not yours?"
AAAohC0 AOih5 up Tic DdChdSCt
then he seated himself, and we both
looked at 1t through the smoke OF our
cigars.
It's just as easy to deal in big sums
as in little, in large matters as in
small. isn't it, joe" said |, once one
gets in the way of IT."
DO you remember-away back
there-the morning" he asked mus
ingly-.the last morning-you and
got un from the straw in the stables
over at Jerome Park-the stables
they let us sleep in?"
And went out in the dawn to roost
on the rails and spy on the speed
trials of old Revell's horses?"
Exactly" said Joe, and we locked
at bach other and laughed We In
rags gosh, how chilly 1t was that
morning! Do you remember what we
talked about?"
NO" said I, though did.
Il was proposing to turn a crooked
trick-and You wouldn't have it, You
persuaded me to keep straight. Matt.
I've never forgotten it, You kept me
straight-showed me what a fool a
man was to load himself down with a
petty larceny record You made a
man of me, Matt And then those good
looks of yours caught the eye of that
bookmaker's girl, and he gave You a
job at writing shetland you worked
me in with YOU
So long ago it seemed, yet near and
real. too, as | sat there, conscious Of
every sound and motion. even of the
fantastic shapes taken by our up.
curling smoke. How far | was from
the rail bird of. those happy-go-
lucky years, when meal meant quite
as much to me as does a million now
how far from all that, yet how near
too. For was not still facing life
with the same careless courage, for
getting each yesterday in the cage,
excitement of each new day wits its
new deal? We went on in our resnin
sciences for a while: then. as JoA had
little work TO do. drifted OUT into
the house, took bite of supper with
Young Melville. had little go at the
tiger, and toward five in the cleal
lune morning emerged into the broad
dav Of the streets. with the precious
bundle under my arms and a 1--WE hun
ared dollar bill in my waIstcoa
pocket.
Give my win to me In a singl.
bjll. said to the banker. and blow
Yourself OF with the change"
1oe walked down the street viii
me--for companionship and a littl,
air before turning IN. he said. but
imagine a desire to keep his eye oil
M treasure a while longer had some
hing 70 do with his taking that earl,
morning stroll We passed several o
hose forlorn figures that burr,
.brough the slowIy-awakenlng street,
be8 or to work Finally thaE,
.,n,e by an old, old woman--a scrub
aoman. | guess. on her way HON,
.-om cleaning some once building
reside Der was thin little boy. hop
ing along on cruteh. stoppe,