Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-05-06

cred with the details of selling at re.
tail. | can make money enough by
getting it all in big Jumps. You look
after things here for a spell. I've got
to run up to Chicago and will be back
Monday"
Floyd was not mistaken in the trap
he had so skillfully laid for Jonas, for
when he arrived at the office Monday
morning Jonas Jones seemed to have
something on his mind He reported
that sales had kept up a good steady
average, and then, as If resenting some
personal injury, he demanded to know
if Floyd was so anxious to get rid OF
a good thing, why he had not given
him chance to buy it,
How much will that Chicago man
give you for the state rights?" he
asked
oh, | don't think I'll have any trou
bic in selling out to him for $25,000,"
was the reply.
Jonas shifted uneasily in his chair.
That's a lot of money" he droned in
far-away voice. "A lot of money, but
man could make it back in no time,
and then make a big profit Look
here, would you sell to me at that
price, and take over the little place
you've got an option on at $4,000"
mo, I'm afraid not, Mr.. Jones. While
I'm not tied up in the matter of the
man who Is thinking of buying, / don't
think it's right to start new trade I'M
til I'm off with the old one. Still, the
thing is new and there is some other
territory that might suit my friend as
well. | want to say though that I've
decided not to buy the Floyd place.
Jimmy has some relatives that I'm
going to send him to-
I'm tell you what I'll do. I'll give
you the 5000 cash on the nail, and you
won't have to bother with the other
party So long as you are not tied
down to him why not take good offer.
when somebody else makes it fiat?
What do you say?"
What do | say? Well, Jones, don't
know but what you are right. A bird
in the hand is worth two in the bush
You can send for the lawyer with the
papers"
Within an hour Jonas was on hand
with the attorney and a certified check
for $4,000 A couple of hours later
Jonas had paid off and discharged the
force of high priced statesmen. He was
going to run things his own way and
make big profits.
Jonas Jones started a half dozen
men out with supply of the new
patent kinder bright and early tba
next morning. AT night the six men
reported that there was nothing do
ing. One man had sold one kinder.
The others had been chased from every
door He concluded that he might have
been bit rash in turning off the expe-
rienced men, but thought he would try
it another day, and If it did not work
he would write the factory to send ex-
perienced agents back to him at the
old scale of pay. He did try 1t another
day, and still another, and then Jonas
CHANGED to think there might be some
thing wrong He started an investiga-
ton of his own, and, taking a street on
which one of the old agents was sup
posed to have sold many kindlers, he
did not find a trace of single pur-
chaser
What Jonas might have learned, but
did not, was that the henchmen of
Floyd had merely taken their wares
to vacant room that had been rented
for the purpose and then loafed about
until time to bring Jones the little
pile of silver with which Floyd sup
MI cd for. ho dox
Not one of them had even attempted
to sell kinder.
Jonas consulted an attorney and
found that there was not one chance
in ten thousand of getting any satisfac-
tion through the courts. The patent
was all right, even if it was not prac-
ticable and salable. For the very first
time in his life. in the language of Doc
Floyd, Jonas was "stung"
Doc Floyd met Jack Cleland at the
High Rollers club ten days after his
sale to Jonas Jones' He had spent a
week with his old aunt in Virginia.
Il saw little place down there I'd
like to buy and settle down into the
life of a respectable country gentle
man." Floyd was saying.
"Oh. cut it OUT returned the pes
simistic Cleland. THE mere fact that
you've adopted kid doesn't necessar-
lily mean that you've turned respect
able. It's an old saying that any bird
of prey will fight for its young. Still,
you are going the nature takers one
better. None of them has told us a
story OF an old gray eagle adopting a
youngster to look after
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