The daily Alaskan., 1911-05-18

h'hH "NE NHr# N|N N H hAnhNh NaN with something valuable on 'em"
 Thc goods would have been con- hscated hy the government"
 And you wouldn't get any of it7'
 "No"
 That's a kind Of heads lose. tails you win business isn't itT'
 "NeUno so."
 That night Patience Whlpple said that Ut1e BIHy seemed croupy and she would sleep with him Ia a room by themselves. while Che father slept iu the room with the HWa girl Jere m'ah awoke in the morning. evidently feeling very comfortable
 eWHla ha ald how good it makes man feel to don kind act. ! went Co sleep last night uIuEn 0 that poor faHar tHa let bury hIs wife and ] wns IhnEu' that I'd taken lhe risk and given him thp satisfaction O keep. in his promise"
 "Yau surely took a big risk. Jerry" replied the wife with a yawn.
 D.IuT yau sleep well last uiEhtT hoasanI
 "Not very Blly was hreathin hard and eougbfn' an night
 Sorry. remarked Che husband sym u0tnc.fea'.y
 After hrcakfasg when Jerry went down Co his office, he noticed some loose earth ou The knoll where the burial had taken r'8ce Che d1y before lie went mp there and discovered that Che grave was open to its very bottom and lHn box had been removed. Turn ing Co Che harbor. he discovered that na ship which had been anchored there the evening before had aIso de- parted Uo went ln Co hts wife and ufd oy.HodIy.
 By gum. Patience. those fellows were smu--lers
 aWmt makes you think sof' asked the wife.
 The grave has been robbed 10 was a trick Like enough thc box had no corpse In i. but was fu'l of dutiah.e eaads. Some confederate has taken il ont"
 aweu" said Patience, wIriuE 9 dish. amcnny after you've been collector fora spell you won't get t0ken in SO oasy
 "Nnrody but you and me knows any. thing about il~ rcio'HCd Jerry thought. fully "I must go right out and d'' un tno grave wouldn't have ihe sc. ere. get out for thousand dollars
 Taking a shovel hc went out fo thr knoll danced about Co see if my one was EaaNng and. feeling satisfied that ha vas not observed, 1led up Che hole
 aHv gum. he said Co himself as ho walked nnk Go his house, "th0t was Che sfescst trick ever heard of ! wonder Patience didn't get on to G. She is generally pretty wide awake. but this time they caught her ua0uin as well as me"
 "TaGcuccr rc said, 'I wish we'd 'a' got on To those frI'ers ! might "a go, some promotion
 "I guess that's aII you'd "a got You wouldn't 'a' got any of. .the goods.
 Wnirrre looked more disturbed over thr matter than his wife His salary as collector was infinitely small and .nr-r was not much comfort for him in life. his wife having a hard time to cI6.ha and c5ucate the children and make ends meet Besides, the govern ment might be informed of what had been done and he would lose his posi- ton On the whole, he was as much depressed over tbe result as he had been cratod at having done a good ac- ti0u
 One day Patience told her husband that she must go to a nelghboring city to visit a dentist He Eroaued, not Knowing where the necessary funds wore ta come from. But Patience kissed h'm roodbv cheerily and took her departure leaving him to take care of the children for a whole day
 The next morning WhippIe received document with the United States treasury departments official stamp E-smr--.ug him from hls office
 'I knew ifr' he moaned. Somebody saw the whole thing and reported it"
 His wife sat down on his lap and put her arms around bis neck
 .I reported it Jerry
 "you2"
 aYas"
 'I saw through that snIveIin' mourn CT at once. He overdld bis Cryin'. AS soon as you were ia bed that night went out with a spade and dug up the box. It was so light that knew it didn't contain a body. carried it Co Che old boathouse and hid it up in one of Che -otuu boats. The next day l went and opened lt and found it fun Of 1aces and jewels. ! wrote a letter to the government under an assumed name. tclHn' them that I knew where smugEled goods were hidden md would tell them 1T they would give me half They agreed, and met them yesterday and took them to the goods They valued them at over. .Ss0Ooo and offered me S30.O00 down to settle. took ft. and here's the check"
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