Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-06-01

thought to attend to them Yet I wish
could have given more"
That pocket does pull. There's a
regular tram line toward It, HIN.
Mighty good work OF yours. But doesn't
1t sour ON you sometimes? Don't you
want a day off occasionally A run
down TO Monte Carlo. for Instance
Monte Carlo, You horrify me, Mr..
Cambcl You are my guest, and | cam
not speak strongly, but this is q very
poor Jest Of yours
Wen perhaps you know best about
that place Monte Carlo is risky AZ 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 ! don't
know why you should be horritied
seeing that we are entire quatre yeuX
here and not on one Of your pious eX-
/ ample platforms. You know, you've
been in far hotter shop than Monte
I Carlo. Watch me pocket that red
An rouge perd- Barcelona to wit. II
/ you remember You were staying al the
QUatro Naciones and at nights you
used 10 cross the Rhamola, and
MY God, how did you know all thiS?"
DO YOU remember objeCting TO take
sheaf Of obviously spurious notes, and
q
out a knife and somebody else fioored
the tnifeman with a chair?"
'NcS--no.'
After which You very sensibly bolted
Well scnor, / had only just that mo-
ment come in, but ! saw you were
fellow Islander and that's why | ham
( died the chair. You don't remember
me and / didn't know your name. but
! ] recognized you the moment your wife
/ introduced us here, because never for
get a face"
You're mistaken | never was in
such a place in ay life. sir Think Of
I the position ! occupy Why, the things
! absurd"
Nov my good sir. don't play Peter
/ here. I'm not going 10 give you away.
! 10 fear Why should I? 1t would
/ probably ruin you, and ! should stand
self convicted OF having been IN the
/ lowest and most desperate gambling
hell in Europe without being made a
siXpence richer by the transaction. only
| you didn't know me, and you thought
didn't know you. and | fancied il
would be handler II we were open about
I one another's little ways at once before
we went on any further Who knows
but wha; we might stand in at some
f. profitable business together Oh, see
I that' Pad lluke and an eight shot
Mr Theodore Shelf stood before the
/ fireplace and drew a handkerchief
across his forehead with trembling fin
/ Cers.
What business did you refer TOP he
asked ~ length.
None whatever I'm not a business
/ man. / make discoveries and don't
. know how 70 use them. You're a busi-
ness man and may be able To see where
! the money profit comes in. If you can,
why, then wen share the plunder. Il
YOU can't We're neither Of us worse off
/ than before
but this is vague. What sort of
1 discoveries? Have you found a mine?"
mo. sir in the present instance
channel"
"A channel? / don't take you"
"A deep water channel leading up
Ca a coast and in beyond it. where ev-
I crybody else supposes there Is nothing
but shallow water The government
charts put down the place rs partly un-
( surveyed but all impossible for naNiga-
ton. Tho upgrowth of coral they say,
is turning part OF the sea into dry land.
4 In a large measure that is true, but at
one point which | have discovered a
4 river comes down from the interior, and
. the scolr Of this river has cut deep
narrow channel out through the reefs
( to tho deep sen water beyond"
In confidence could you tell me
/ where This place is?"
In confidence. I'll tell you it is on
the west coats of Florida-on the Mexi-
1 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,
| aligators, wild beasts and a few Semi
. ia0le Indians. only one expedition of
( whites has been across it--or rather
4 only one expedition known to history
4 But i've been there, right into the heart
I of tie EYerglaGes--in fact, I've Just
come from there, and / netted c 900
out Of the trip
/ How" asked Shelf
"Nevcc mind exactly how. That's
. partly another mans business. Shall
. we So" the other man gave me a COM
mission there, and / carried ii out and
got duly paid? Anyway that's a suffi-
!. ctent explanation. But what about the
/ channel I've found If one gives il to
4 the chart people they'n simply say
thank YOU and publish your name In
one number OF professional magazine
which nobody reads. / don't banker
after fame OF that kind. I've the sordid
taste to much prefer dollars"
Shelf strode forward and seized Cam
I bel by the arm. If your channel and
your everglades viii answer purpose
1 want there's half q million of Eng
/ iish sove.eigns to be made out of it,"
Five hundred thousand pounds
I Phew'"
Hush There's somebody coming.
/ But It's to be had If you are no, afraid
OF a little risk
Il fear nothing on this earth" said
! Cambel. when it's to my interest not
tC fccr. Moreover though I'm not q
/ saint, my standard OF morality is prob
ahly shade higher than yours don't
rind doing some sorts of dirty things
bat there arc shades in drtincss, and
some tints / draw the line. its dan
CeroUs to--cr-havc the tips OF these
cues glued on so badly They fly off
4 and hit people.
The billiard room door had opened
7 and Amy Rivers had come in, with
Fairfax AZ her heels. whence Cambers
depression. The matter had not been
put In so NAM words, but ne felt
sure that the commission of a great
! robbery had been proposed to him, and
he had more than half mind To drive
I his knucklee into Theodore Shelf's ly-
ing, hypocrticai face there and then
/ on the spot
Continued Next Week.)
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