The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-09-05
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down in our medicine chest, 1 dom
| know where you will find It. Yes sir
| l will say that. The Port Edes has q
romping fine medicine chest. and rvs
been through 1t all myself, so ought
TO know The donkeyman's been most
ways through it, too, but he's on al
Fever mixtures now, and he's goinf
solid at them. We've three quart bot.
ues---A for bilious, b for malarial and
| q for typhoid--and the donkeyman has
swig out of each with nip OF cholo-
rodyne thrown in just after his break
fast every morning and then rub with
st. Elmo's rheumatic cure, and IL he
isn't as right as mailboat--well, never
speak to me Of drugs again. But it's
making tough man OF him, Mr.. Cam
bel, and that's what want, because
the donkeyman and / are going to
chip In partnership"
What, buy a steamer together and
take her tramping? Well, hope you'll
nave all manner OF luck"
"Oh, don't you make an error" re-
torted the captain. 1T isn't salt wa
ter trading we're in for. We aren't
such gulls as that. We know too much
about 1t, both OF us. We're going to
start In farming"
Farming? What does either OF you
know about that?"
'oh, don't you take me for fool, sir.
can learn as well as anyone, and so
can the donl1eyman. We shall get 300
acres of land granted to the pair Of us
for nothing in northwest Canada and
even IL crops failed altogether we've
enough saved up to live on for the first
two years. We can try IL anyhow when
you give US our discharge from here.
Ever since worked at sea-" he added
plaintively "Pve always wished to be
a farmer"
II think" said Cambel, II would dis
suade you from the attempt IL could,
but / know it's no use trying, so / will
hold my tongue on that point AS to
when your bargain is up with the Port
Edes, you can put that at half an hour
from now il you like. Anyway I'm go
ing to leave here directly. and / never
intend to return here again"
Captain Kettles jaw dropped.
"What?' he gasped.
Il have changed my mind" he said
"or had ii changed for me- For my
part that gold will remain where 1t is
\ am not going to touch a sovereign
OF it."
Look here said Captain Kettle, "do
you mind telling me? Did you come
against some preacher during the
cyclone and get religion from him?"
Il think know what you mean. But
you're on the wrong track. I'm not the
sort who announces publicly that he
will cease to be a sinner just because
he finds himself in physical danger"
No" said Kettle, come to think of
ii, / should have known you were not.
was fool TO ask that question. But
it settles it in another direction. There's
woman got hold of you"
COR OF her."
Either way. So that's it. And you
told her all about this racket because
you thought 1T wrong to hold any Sc
oFets OF your own, and she soured on IL.
Well, that's woman'sN way. And the
other lady you spoke about, she who
made you run wild, you've forgotten
her?"
Cambel nodded.
"And she's forgotten your
II hope she has, and If she hasn't !
can't help it,"
''Well, Mr.. Cambel, If this business is
to end in bout ship. as soon as the
oonkeyman comes back from his hunt
ing am ready to get under way and
be off. But as he isn't here yet, and as
we've still bit of time to wait, I'd
like to hear what is going to become OF
that &500,000 and the old ship, after all.
I've been in at the handling of them
both SO long that I'm beginning to take
quite friendly interest In their move
ments. AS you know, I've liked them
so well at times that I've been half
inclined to adopt them myself"
II know, and 1t is to your honor,
that you didn't"
"oh. as to honor, don't make any
blessed error about that, sir. 1t was
my cantankerousness II the crew
hadn't been SO uppish that night in
the gust of the Florida channel, SO help
me, neither steamer nor gold would
ever have got so far as this. But Wen
let that pass for the present. And now
I'd like to hear. if might. who Is to
finger the stuff?"
Kettle, I'd tell you IL could, but
upon my soul I'm not able. My bargain
with the girl I'm going to marry was
to pocket no share of the plumber my
self, but as / warned her / was Shelf's
man still and couldn't cease to serve
him because of scruples OF my own
conscience. And so was going to set
off to carry his half to the bank we
had agreed upon when a newspaper
arrived to say that he had gone smash
and was In jail awaiting trial on six
teen heavy charges.
Directly afterward a letter came
from Shelf himself, which had been
passed by the newspaper cablegram,
telling me to transmit the stuff to q
place In South America where he could
meet me. Clearly he can't do that now,
and being convict he cannot hold
property. So, perhaps jesuitically, /
hold myself clear Of all pledge to him.
Then who the devil is to get the
money? Hang me IL can see"
The proper owners. whoever they
may be- said Cambel but they'll
have to be found, and at present I
haven't the vaguest notion who they
might be. In fact, as we now are,
there's half a million OF English money
and fine steamer going a-begging."
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CHAPTER XXI.