Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-07-21

clean new slips of yellow which told
the bearer that there were deposited
in the treasury of the United States
s~o-and-so-many dollars In gold, to all
Of which this document certified. But
as Longwood, with his own share in
the pocket Of his coat, was about to
pass toward the door, his eye fell on
a queer thing that lay on b chair
Of the stranger.
What's this?"
The weather. man took 1t. inspected
1t, and gave the table : tremendous
volar slap.
What do you think of that?" he
cried. Did you ever see the like of
that? Hold me. boys! Hold me care
full, or I'll die with strangulation from
laughing. He took 1t off as clean as
a whistle! As clean as II he was the
visiting doctor at the hospital"
. . . . .
But what did Longwood do, after
he had broken his first fifty for a
complete o outfit, and his second
for a sleeper on the first train for
| the east out of Oakland, and later,
after he had bought into the printing
and binding plant. which was then q
small affair Of it's kind. but an affair
that promised well If handled under
careful management?
Longwood naturally worried.
OF evenings when he would go
home and lay aside the business
cares Of the day, he would figure for
hours on the problem Of the five.
and the Tropic Dawn, and h man
with the f~orty-eight. What was the
Tropic Dawn? A ship, no doubt, that
had been worked for the old game
although there were objections to that
theory too. Still, If it were assumed
that 1t were a ship, with a consign-
ment of specie, or something like
that, and a substitution of the goods.
with the big five scuttling her at sea
and getting away on a boat. and the
lecture fellow doing the dirty work
for the consigLors, with a payment
Of marine insurance, and so on.
But he was never satisfied with that
ingenious explanation.
Longwood grew fast and prosper
| Gus, and one day after he had ac-
quired complete control of the plant,
50 tina he could have a little holiday
for himself without danger Of being
robbed by his partner, he took a trip
to San Francisco and put up at the
| Palace hotel. You must understand
that the Tropic Dawn had become
for him a problem that cried out for
| clearness. but he would never trust
the business to any mere erring hu-
mar agency. He would look into 1t
with his own eyes; and the first night
he was in San Francisco he took 1t
up with the clerk of the hotel.
What was that business about the
| Tropic DAWN"
He put the question asi q bold
chance.
"The Tropic Dawn? Don't you
know about the Tropic Dawn? She
was blown to slivers as she was
passing the preside on her way from
stream to sea. Blown to slivers. Some
of them said it was her boilers, and
some of them said 1t was nitro-glycer-
Inc. Whichever it was, she was blown
to slivers as she was going from
stream to sea-"
Longwood thoughtfully made his
way to a chair by the log fire in the
lobby.
Blown to slivers with nitro-glycer-
Inc?
1t was a fine problem-to let alone!
But that was how Longwood-fgur-
ing what was coming to him IL they
compounded the interest on his "
share of the swag that Bostwick had
kept back from him-agreed with
Bostwfck that he would settle for a
reasonable amount of stock in the
bank and an unlimited line of dis
count on his paper.