Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-06-14

consignment of specie on board. Five
hundred thousand pounds 1 fancy you
mentioned as the figure In the billiard
room his morning. Well, If n is go
ing In for robbery-or piracy, l suppose
1t would turn out to be IN this instance
there's nothing like a large coup.
It's your niggler who usually fails ana
gets laid by the heels. Drive on, ana
be q little more explicit"
Couldn't The steamer be lost some
how in the gulf Of Mexico and a boat
containing the boxes Of specie find its
way through this channel OF yours IN
TO the interior OF Florida?"
How lost?"
Mr.. Shelf mopped his forehead again.
"Don't steamers" ne asked, don't
they sometimes have sad
which cause them to blow upE
such things have been known. But
It's rather rough on the crew, don't
you think"
oh. poor fellows, yes. But n sailors
life is always hazardous. Indeed, what
can he expect with wages at their pre-
sent ruinous rate? S"hipowners must
live"
"Oh, you beauty said Patrick Cam
bel.
II must ask you TO refrain from these
comments, sir. But, tell me, before /
go any further in this confidence, am
| TO count upon your assistance
That depends upon many Things. 10
begin with, therell have to be modif-
cations before / dabble. I'm no obtru-
sively suueamish about human life-my
own or other peoples. on occasion l
bagged my man because he had twice
shot at me. Still piracy, complicated
with what practically amounts to III
der, is an art which | haven't traHlcked
IN as yet, and, curious to refate, j
n - A. --s- UlHR~ ERhnVNA 10
delicious I'm it's cold bl~oodedness, but II
would look better if it were toned down
q trifle. BY the way, better help your
self to a drink. Your nerves are In
such a joggle that ( fancy you'll faint
II you don't. L notice there's no III
ribbon on your evening dress. Humph!
That's a second mates nip-four I'm
gers If it's a drop. Apparently you're
used TO this. BY the way, what honor
arium do o propose should take for
engineering this piece of rascality In
your faYOr?"
II will give you $780,
Now, would you really? Not even
guineas?'
"Mr. Cambel, I'll make it a thousand.
There"
Mr.. Theodore Shelf. when a monkey
wants a cat TO pull chestnuts for him
put of the fire, he first has TO be
stronger lltl tiIt Ntls W ~ I "
supy that enviable position. In fact, |
have the whiphand of you in every
way. We need not p~articulariZe, but
you can sum the items for yourself.
Now, I'll make you an offer-half of all
The plumber and entire control OF every
hing"
my God, do you want to ruin me?'
81 don't care in the least IL l do.
Your welfare doesn't interest me. My
.-.-saA. a., an tha n,Anl-nf with a f,J1
ike. You can take 'em or leave 'em.
That's final"
Shelf burst into a torrent Of expos
,ulations, exciting himself more and
more as he went on, till at last he stood
before the other, with gripped fists and
The veins ridged down his neck, mar
t~tculate with fury.
Cambel heard him out with a con-
.emptuous smile, but when the man had
stormed himself into silence then he
spoke.
when one trades in life and death,
the brokerage is heavy. You have heard
my offer. If you don't like it, say so
without further palayer, and I'll leave
you now-with you conscience, if you
nave a rag of such a commodity left"
''You may sit where you are" replied
Shelf s|ullenly.
well and good. That means to say
my terms are accepted. I'll pin you to
Them later. But for the present let me
observe to you something else, so that
there may be no misunderstanding be-
tween us. I've been rambling up and
down the world half my life, and I've
met blackguards of most descriptions
IN every ubiquitous place from Callao
10 Port Said-forgers, thieves, muir
nererS of nearly every grade OF pro-
1ciency-but they say that the prime
of everything gets to London, M |
verify believe o that 1t does, for, by
Joye, you are the most pernicious
Scoundrel Of all the collection"
Sir" Numbered Shelf, "am / to lis
ten TO these foul insults in my own
house?"
"Oh, / quite understand the obliga-
tons of bread and salt, but you are be-
yond the pale of that. You are q
noxious beast who ought to be stamped
put. But you can be useful to me, SO
I shall hire myself out to be useful to
you. But / have brought these UNI
pleasant facts under your notice to let
you thoroughly understand that / have
summed you up from horns to hoofs,
and to point out to you that / wouldn't
give a piastre for your most sacred
word of honor. We shall be bound to
one another In this precious scheme by
community of interests alone, and il
you can swindle me you may. Only
look out for the consequences If you
do try ii n / never yet left q score
unpaid"
Were Arcades ambo, rascals both
only we're different varieties OF rascal
I know you pretty thoroughly, and il
you don't know me as well possibly you
win before we've done with one an
other.
"And now, If it please you. Wen &c
into the minuter details of this piece
of ywillainy and sketch out definitely
now we are to steal this half a million
In specie and this valuable steamer
without committing more murder thar
Is absolutely essential to success"