The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-09-05

in the room as an Idle spectator ana
was bit with the excitement and asked
a friend who was a member to act for
him. I'm going to play a hand in,
this" quoth Master Losing.
cat that price?" asked his friend.
When they get to IS guineas pre-
MUM"
= suppose you know that at makes you
$50, 900 underwritten."
Pm good for that" said Losing, n
an hour afterward proved himself so.
as he had to pay. To this day many
Lloyds men h were interested in
that scene congratulate themselves on
having made G10,S00 salvage by a
fluke out of a ship that was totally
lost.
1t began to dawn on Losing after
the event that he had made a fool of
himself and that his luck was through,
but he had the sense not to whine
aloud, and SO his friends forgot the
matter in the excitement of other in
t~erests. Losing did not forget, because
the bank had written to him that his
account was oyerdrawn, and he had
several bills which much wanted pay
ing. Unostentatiously he began to
look about him for a means of making
a more regular and steady livelihood.
AS after several months of search
this last did not seem any ap~preciably
nearer, he was able to give full atten-
ton to a letter he received concerning
the Port Edes and her cargo. 1t was
unsigned and bore an American post
mark. It ran as follows:
Sir: I a that you are now legiti-
mate owner of the Port Edes and her
cargo. She was picked up at sea and
is now in the Everglades of Florida in
(here followed the exact latitude and
longitude). The specie is taken out
Of her, and you will find it by digging
(here came elaborate cross bearing and
directions)- If you are a wise man and
wish to enjoy what is now your own,
o will say as little about it to any
one as possible
The communication was, tt, say the
least Of it. mysterious, but because
Losing was a fool he did not see SO
many possibilities in it as a man with
more imagination might have done. He
determined to find out how the matter
lay with his own eyes, and with that
purpose ~journeyed to the hotel at Point
Sebastian, now rebuilt With new mag
nificence. 1t was the winter season,
and the place was crowded, and among
the crowd was Lossing's old friend
Williams, again at the end of
his new quarters allowance. The pair
had several cocktails together and
some talk, and finally set off into the
Everglades under the guidance of an
ancient alligator hunter. The saga of
their doings for the ext six months
does not appear, but it is known thai
other men joined them, including sew
eral in the nautical interest, so that
there must have been quite a colony |
of them out there, presumably at some
sort of employment or other. Messrs.
Kent Williams and Losing again re-
turn to view on board a royal mail
boa bound home from a port of west
ern South America.
The pair of them watched the shores
sink under the sea. and That's done
WITH said Kent-Williams
1T is returned LOSING" and TIM not
sorry. and I am satisfied. It's a bigger
puzzle than I shall ever make out in
this life. First a steamer that's sup-
posed to be sunk gets up and goes
and plants herself in the mid
die of a forest. as though she wanted
to grow. She's so tight there that it
takes us six months to cut a canal to
the nearest river. Then someone paints
a different pattern on one smokestack
and leave the other as it was and al !
ters some of the name plates on her en-
gines and fittings and leaves the names
on the life buoys as they We're. And
then the gold that's in her flies two
miles farther up country and dives
twenty feet under the ground without
disturbing the W of mangrove
which are so matted above that
we had to cut them with an AK
Il think, dear boy. we've been wise
IN selling the steamer with a different
name on her to a man who gave her
a low price and asked no questions"
I'm sure of it.. But still I'd like to
know how it was all done. Do you think
Cambel had a finger in it?'
DO you think retorted Kent-Wn-
liams. that if Patrick Ca1nbel had his
finger on half a million tina no one
else knew about it wouldn't have been
his half million? No, sir. that cock
won't fight. Besides he was spoonine
the Kilda girl and that took up ali
his time, 1 guess. He married her in
the early autumn, and they've gone
west, l fancy. and I don't
know where. She'd a sister
near Point Sebastian, a Mrs. DIVER
nay, a deuced niced looking woman.
that Cambel vas spoons on himself one
time"
"Oh, you've spoken about her before"
Il know. Between ourselves. Loss
ing, dear boy, I went up to her place
one evening n proposed to her. and.
by jove. d'you know she actually re-
FUSED me! She's got that fellow Cam
bel still in her head, I ppo But
l shall go out and have a look at her
Honestly I was after e500 a,
year at first. but now that, thanks to
I'm better off 1t won't look so
and really I like her better than
L thought. She's a most awfully charm
ing woman"
What did she ever marry that brute
DuVernay for asked Losing.
An, that replied Kent-Williams, "is
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