Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-02-13
CHAPTER xIII-continued.

!! IT don't know" he said with doubt
ing emphasis. NYou say you landed
him without penny in his pocket@ |
don't call that good plan at all. OF
course, he amt factor, but
Well, it might've been as well to give
him his fare home. He might sake
trouble for US somehow.
don't mind telling you, Cap'n, that
you're an ass"
The tensity of certain situations
numbs the sensibilities. Kirkwood had
never in his weirdest dreams thought
of himself as an eavesdropper; he did
not think of himself as such in the
present instance; he merely listened
edging nearer the skylight, OF which
the wings were slightly raised, and
keeping as far as possible in shadow
COW, I asay!" the captain was re
. monstrating, aggrieved. COW was
to know . didn't ave it in for you
First off, when q comes on board (I'll
they myke emf thought S was from
the Yard. Then, when I see what a
bally hinnocent e was, nylles up my
mind 'e's just some one you've been
plyin' one of you little gymes on, and
100 was loohin' to square is account
So did i'm proper
Evidently" assented Calendar dry.
Z ly. You're bit of a heavy-handed
brute, Stryker. Personally, I'm kind
of sorry for the boy; he wasn't a bad
sort, as his kind runs, and he was nc
fool, from what little I saw of him
- wonder what he wanted
Possibly" Mulready chimed in
suavely, f'you can explain what you
wanted of him, in the first place. How
did you come to drag him into this
business?"
sOh, that! Calendar laughed short
ly. THAT was purely accidental part
ly inspiration happened to see his
name on the Pless register; he'd put
hisself down as from Frisco. figured
1t out that he would be next door tc
broke and getting desperate, ready tc
do anything to get home; and thought
we might utilize him to smuggle some
of the stuff into the States. Once be
fore, if you'll remember no; that
was before we got together, Mulready
picked up a fellow countryman OF
the Strand. He was down and out
jumped at the JOE, and we made q
neat little wad on it,
tsThe more fool you, to take outsid
ers into your confidence" grumbleC
Mulready.
"Ow?" Intercepted Calendar, min
licking STRIKERS accent inimitably
well, you've got a heap to Learn
about this game, Mul; about the frs
thing is that you must trust Old Mai
Know-it-All, which is me. I've rur
more diamonds into the States, in ont
way or another, than you ever pinch
ed out of shirt front of a toff on the
Empire Prom, before they made the
graft too hot for you and you came t
take lessons rom me in the gentle ar
of living easy
ooh. cut that, cawn't your"
Delighted, dear boy s. On
of the first prin ciples, next to profit
ing by the admirable example I Sc
you, is to make the fellows in you
own line trust you. Now if this DO.
had taken on with me, l could hav'
got bunch Of the sparklers on m,
mere say-so, from old Morganthau VI
on Finsbury Pavement. He does
steady business hoodwinking the Gus
toms for the, benefit of his American
clients-and himself. And I'd we mad
a neat little profit besides; somethin
to fall back on, if this fell through.
don't mind having two strings to m
bow"
EYES," argued Mulready; "but SUI
pose this Kirkwood had taken on wit
you and then peached?"
That's another secret; you've &C
to know your man, be able to siZ
: him up. called on this chap for tina