Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1909-04-08

many specs one way or another m my
time. l have managed theater, ant
run an hotel, and may do either agair
some day. l have been In all sorts OF
companies. l have made my fortune, and
bust up half dozen times. There Is
often big stroke to be done about a
new place if man has head on his
shoulders, and doesn't arrive too late
It's very possible am that; but | heard
a good deal about this place from friend
of mine last week. and said | would run
down and look at it as soon as l had two
or three days to spare; and here l am"
In due course the lawyer showed his
new acquaintance over the place, expa-
tiating on Its advantages and future pros
poets. Mr. Hemmingby ratified away with
his usual fuency, interspersng his speech
with incessant questions.
Mr.. Pegram admitted to his new friend
that he had been one of the very earliest
spectators in buying up land round about
Llanbarlym, and owned that he had made
very good thing indeed on the transac-
tion in various ways during the last
three years, and that he fully expected
to make considerably more during the
next five or six. AS for Mr.. Hemmingby,
he told wondrous stories, and darkly hint
ed that he guessed that there were dollars
to be made in Frisco, only he hadn't
quite cyphered out the hang of 1t as
yet. Then Mr.. Pegram told OF his once
winning the Derby" lottery.
Lotteries !! exclaimed Mr.. Hemmingby.
''If you are good at lotteries, guess you'll
have to take turn at the biggest thing
of the kind that has been on hand in my
day. You will have to take a ticket in
the Great Tontine 7"
"What is that?" inquired the lawyer.
II never even heard of it."
'Whereupon Mr.. Hemmingby proceeded
to explain the whole system OF that elab-
crate lottery to the best OF his ability
1t took some time before he made his
companion thoroughly understand the
scheme. 1t may be that the port wine
had something to say against lucid ex-
planation on the one hand, and clear
understanding on the other, although
neither of the men showed the slightest
SYMPTOMS of their deep potations; but
when Mr.. Pegram had thoroughly mas
tered the details of the scheme he became
deeply interested in it, and finally lnquir-
ed whether Hemmingby himself had taken
shares in it.
"I've got one" he replied, "and I've
great mind to take another; but 1t amt
SO easy to find life of sixty that you
know and can do bit with if he gets
rickety. Why, if I found myself IN 1t
at last, and my man bit ailing, la cart
him round the world until he got the eli
mate he wanted"
"Ah," replied Pegram, II like that
ca pital idea-life you can watch over,
keep your eye on, that's the thing. sup
pose the life you have got is a man OF
whom you can take care!
His host eyed him keenly as he replied,
"No; and that's just the reason l should
like nv second chance to be OF that kind.
No, l won name him; but III give you
a very fair tip if you think of venturing
YOUR luck. Do as l have done-pick out
one of the most eminent statesmen OF that
age. In spite of the tremendous work
they do, the balance of them 60 very near
living out the time.
81 have it" exclaimed Mr.. Pegram
next morning. "Old Krabbe's the man l
want. He must be about sixty, and IS as
hale and hearty a man as l know. He's
been clerk with me now some seventeen
wears and never been ailing all that time.
I can't call to mind his ever being day
absent or five minutes late. Father did
good stroke of business when he got hold
of him; and, to do him justice, the old
dad was mighty good Judge of the points
of either man or beast. Old Krabbe has
been a good servant to me so far. I'll
lust ask him his exact age, and If that's
about right, put him in. Let him live to
land this stake, and he shall have new
rigout and live like a gentleman to the
end of his days; and he may take his oath
III not see his valuable life endangered.
That's settled. Yes, III put in for the
Great Tontine,' and old Krabbe shall be
my nominee I'll write about it to-day"
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