Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-09-07

: is now in the Everglades OF Florida in
\ (here followed the exact latitude and
] longttude). The specie is taken out
/ Of her, and you viii find II by digging
! (here came elaborate cross bearing and
directions) II you are a wise man and
wish to enjoy what is now your own
/ you will say as little about it TO any
one as possible"
The communication was, to say the
! least OF II, mysterious, but because
/ Losing was a fool he did not see sc
many possibilities in IL as a man with
more Imagination might have done. He
/ determined to find out how the matter
! Jay with his own eyes, and with that
/ purpose iourneyed 70 the hotel at Point
/ Sebastian, now rebuilt with new mag
nificence. II was the winter season.
and the place was crowded, and among
the crowd was Lossings old friend
Kent 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 next six months
does not appear. but it Is known that
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
boat bound home from q port of vest
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 I'm not
sorry, and ] am satisfied. It's a bigger
puzzle than l shall ever make out in
this life. First steamer that's sup
posed TO be sunk gets up and goes
overland and plants herself In the mid
die OF a forest. as though she wanted
TO grow She's 50 tight there that it
takes us six months to cut q canal TO
the nearest river. Then someone paints
a different pattern on one smokestaCll
and leaves the other as il was and al
ters some or the name plates on her en-
gines and fittings and leaves the names
on the life buoys as they were. And
then the gold that's in her flies two
miles farther up country and dives
twenty feet under the ground without
disturbing the network of mangrove
roots which are so matted above that
we had to cut them with an ak"
II think, dear boy, we've been wise
in selling the steamer with a different
name on her to a man who gave her
4 low price and asked no questions"
Il IN sure Of IL. But stil I'd like to
know how II was all done. Do you think
that Cambel had a finger I'm it?"
DO you think" retorted Kent-WH-
liams, that if Patrick Cambe had his
finger on half a million that no one
else knew about IL wouldn't have been
his half million? No, sir, that cock
won't fight Besides he was spooning
the Kiidar girl and that took up all
his time. l guess. He married her in
the early autumn, and they've gone
somewhere west, l fancy, and l don't
exactly know where She'd a sister
near Point Sebastian, a Mrs. Duver-
nay, a deuced niced looking woman.
that Cambel was spoons on himself one
time"
"Oh, you've spoken about her before"
Il know, Between ourselves. Loss
ing, dear boy, | went up to her place
one evening and proposed to her and
by iove. d'you know she actually re-
fused me! She's got that fellow Cam
bel still I'm her head, ] suppose. But
l shall go out and have a look at her
again. Honestly ! was after $500 n
year at first, but now that. thanks TO
you, I'm better off II won't look so
bad, and really I like her better than
| thought. She's a most awfully charm
ing woman"
What did she ever marry that brute
Duvernay for?" asked Losing.
All that" replied Kent Williams. lis
more than / can tell you,"
THE END