The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-01

yet that in this age Of the world there
arc such things Us drafts and bills Of
exchange, and that sensible people don Z
generally travel around the country
with large sums of actual money in
their possession. thereby inviting the
crimes that generally occur? Also, why
is 1T that no reward has been offered
for the apprehension or recovery of the
valuable property? Pshaw! never
knew You to be engaged in such raw
performance before,
Marvellous Gets Real Classy.
Your criticism relates more 10 the
matters of imperfect detail and faulty
judgment than to any theory of the
case, answered Anderson. land, there
tore, is irrelevant. incompetent and
lmmaterial, as the lawyers would say.
But what have YOU found out as the
result of Your mastertul endcavors 80
Then followed the reporter s recital
of what circumstances he had assembled,
concluding with:
- You are tri1e too big for regu-
lation chink, but you make into as
small a compass us YOU can: | Will do
likewise. We both understand enough
Chinese 10 get along with in an emer-
gepcy, and we will have TO trust to
luck and presence of mind for the
rest
''Mcet me armed and equipped as
the law directs. with your badge in its
place. but concealed, in front of the
Golden Lion AT clock We viii then
proceed to Gee Lee S place, where a
fan tan game will be going on. and
where, / think, can show YOU the man
with whom | spoke. He has changed
three one hundred dollar bills in toIer-
able close succession this week. which
- worth inqulring into and | want You
TO form his acquaintance,
81 am as anxious 10 meet this chap
as You are. responded Anderson. as
he made few notes in a small memo.
randum book, which he showed back in
his pocket. ~ have heard of this man
and would only be too glad to discover
him in one of his numerous trans
actions which the lawmakers have seen
fit TO forbid
"I have made terms with Yee Lee S
look out. y said the reporter, putting,
il up to him that ! was after stuff for
the paper and assuring him that /
would use no names nor publish any
thing incriminating, promises which can
be quite easily kept.
A Little Dollar Bill
Gle likes me pretty well, anyway,
all of which considerations. together
with Sl.00 in United States coin, re-
ccipt whereof was duly acknowledged,
made me solid. / told him | would
bring a friend, TO which ne made no
oh icctions, but SAID We would have TO
have n good makeup, as none but
Cinnamon arc allowed inside where the
games arc going on.
"Well if that 5 the case asked
Anderson, quickly, chow in the devil
does our mutual friend get iul"
"ln the same way that we will. -
responded the reporter, smiingly, ''be-
sides, he has two or three 'pullers
and / suppose after sklnuing the heath,
en- alive he divides mp with them.
After some other unimportant chat,
the conspirators separated. each TO 90
his way to make preparations for the
evenings sortie on Iec Lee S works -
large and muscular. looking celestial WAS
seen approaching that palace OF pastime
and sinfulness known as the Golden
Lion,
AS its alIuring net gathered all kinds
of fishes, his presence IN the vicinity
was not rs much noticed as it would
have been in a more respectable quar-
ter. lie was soon joined by another
of his race. and at once they started
of down the street.
Before going far. they made de
tour into an alley none too(wcll light
ed. and in Il short time stood before
n door i'm front of which WINS a dingv
lamp, il. and its surroundings. bearing
Chinese characters in proiusion.
So far as it could he determined from
from the exterior, the place was as or
dcrly as any i'll the ncighborhood. The
smaller of the Cinnamon Knocked on
the door. which was opened n little
way, so that an inmate could see who