The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-05-30

want a day off occasionally? A run
down to Monte Carlo, for i~nstance?"
Monte Carlo! You horrify me, Mr.
cambel. You are my guest. and / can
poor jest of yours
We'll perhaps you NOW best about
that place. Mont 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
iquities some of them are apt to split
When they get home again. But | don't
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 Mont
carlo. Watch me pocket that red.
Al, rouge perd-Barcelona to wit. If
you remember, you were staying at the
Quatro Naciones, and at nights you
used to cross the Rhambla, and"
My God, how did you know all this Q"
DO 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.
We'll, senior, l had only just that mo-
ment come in, but / saw you were a
fellow islander, n that's why 1 han
died the chair. You don't remember
me, and I didn't NOW your name, but
| recognized you the your wife
introduced us here, because I never for
| get a face"
You're mistaken. I never was in
such a place in my life, sir. hin of
the position l occupy. Why, the things
absurd"
Now. my good sir, don't play Peter
mere. I'm not going to give o away.
No fear. Why should I? 1t would
probably ruin you, n 1 should stand
self convicted of having been in the
lowest and most desperate gambling
he'll In Europe without being made a
sixpence richer by the transaction. Only
you didn't know me, and you thought
l didn't know you, and I fancied it
would be handler If we were open about
one another's little ways at once before
we went on any further. Who knows
but what we might stand in at some
profitable business together? Oh, see
that! Bad f1uke 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
1 make discoveries and don't
hlioW HOW W use LneIn. you're a bust
ness man and may be able to see where
the money profit comes in. If you can,
why, then We'll share the plumber. If
you can't we're neither of US worse off
than before"
But this is vague. What sort Of
discoveries? Have you ound a mine?"
No, sir, in the present instance a
channel"
"A channel? 1 don't take you"
"A deep water channel leading I'D
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 IN.
surveyed, but all impossible for naviga-
ton. The upgrewth of coral, they say,
Is turning part Of the sea into dry land.
In a 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 deep
narrow channel out through the reefs
to the deep sea water beyond"
In confidence could you tell me-
where this place tsp,
In confidence, I'll tell you it is on
the west coats of Florida-on the Next
can gulf coast. The interior Of south
ern Florida is called the Everglades.
It's partly lake, partly swamp, built up
OF many groves, saw grass, cypress
trees and water, tenanted by snakes,
afligators, wild beasts and a few Sem
mole Indians. Only one expedition Of
whites has been across it-or rather
only n expedition known to history.
But I've been there, right into the heart
OF the Everglades-in fact, I've just
come from there, n T. netted Gl. 900
out of the trip"
How" asked Shelf.
Never mind exactly how. That's
partly another mans business. Shall
we say the other man gave me a. COM
mission there, and I carried 1t out and
got duly paid? Anyway that's a sufi-
Gent explanation. But what about the
channe I've found. II one gives it to
the chart people, they'll simply saw
thank you and publish your name i'm
n number of a professional magazine
which nobody reads. I don't banker
after fame of that kind. I've the sordid
taste to much prefer dollars"
Shelf strobe forward and seized Cam
bel by the arm. IF your channel and
your everglades will answer a purpose
I want, there's half a million of Eng
fish sovereigns to be made out of it,"
Five hundred thousand pounds!
Phew!"
Hush! There's somebody coming.
it's to be had If you are NOT afraid
of a little risk"
Il fear nothing on this EARTH said
Cambel. when it's to my interest not
to fear. Moreover, though I'm not a
saint any standard of morality is prob
SILLY q SHaae nlSner tnan yours. [ don't
mind doing some sorts of dirty things.
but there are shades in d~irtiness, and
at some tints draw the line. It's dam
gerous to-er-have the tips of these
cues glued on so badly. They fly off
and hit people"
The billiard room door had opened
and Amy Rivers had come in, with
Fairfax at her heels, whence Gamblers
DEPRESSION. The matter had not been
put in so many words, but he felt
sure that the commission of a great
robbery had been proposed to him, and
he had more than half a air to drive
his knuckles into Theodore Shells ly-
ing, hypocritieal face there and her
on the spot.
Continued Next Week.)
A Tactful King.
From Penny Magazine.
The king of Italy was driving his motor
car in Rome one day. and. turning a corn
er at a rapid rate, he nearly colltded with
another motor car coming in the opposite