Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-03-11

"You have won the capital prize"
Spaniard, regardless of consequences,
but just at that moment Allan dashed
out of the crowd crying breathlessly:
ooh, boss! Oh, boss! Glory to God,
it is true! Oh-h-h, gloryw Selling
Kinks hands, he kissed them before
the other could prevent, then ran on
frantically: "Come quick! Come!
Come! Gomez
look out!' snapped Kirk angrily.
whats happened?"
"The dream! The dream is come!
Oh, God, sar. You-you have won the
capital prize, sar! You-do not say you
have lost the ticket or shall die and
kill myselfr'
Here it iS!' In his hand Anthony
waved a slip of paper, out of which
leaped four big, red numbers-"SS3S."
"Diablo" came from behind him,
and he turned to behold Alfarez, livid
of face and with shaking hand. fling
a handful of similar coupons after the
broken cane. Without another word
or a glance behind him the Panama
Man made off across the plaza, barely
in time to escape the crowd that surg
ed around the two he had quilted.
Bombarded by a fusillade of ques-
tons in a dozen tongues, jostled by
clamoring. curious throng. the lucky
owner of 1888 fought his way back
into the lottery building, and as he
went the news spread like flaming oil.
There it was. plainly displayed,
''8S3S!' There could be no possible
mistake, and it meant $4,000 silver
pesos. princely fortune indeed for the
collector of No. 2.
Promptly at five minutes to ! o'clock
that afternoon Allan Allan. late of
Jamaica, strobe through the Panama
railroad station and Haunted a first
class round trip ticket to Colon before
the eyes of his enemy, the gateman.
He was smoking a huge jamaican
cigar, and his pockets bulged with 9th
ers. When he came to board the train
he called loudly for a porter to bring
him the step and once inside selected
a shady seat with the languid air of a
bored globe trotter
Only when Kirk appeared upon his
rounds did he forego his naughty com
placency. Then his wide lips, which
nature had shaped to a perpetual grin,
curled back as they were intended, his
smile lit up the car, and he burst into
loud laughter.
Kirk found that the report of his
good fortune had spread far and wide;
he was halted a score of times for con-
CALCULATIONS; operators at the various
stations yelled at him and waved their
hands; Runnels wired "Hurrahr' at
Gatun. A certain respect was in these
greetings, too, for he had suddenly be-
come character.
AS yet, however, he had not fully
considered what this windfall meant
to him. His first thought had been
that he could now discharge his debts,
go back to New York and clear himself
before the law Yet the more he
thought of it the less eager he became
to return. Seven thousand five hun
dred dollars in gold to Kirk Anthony
of Panama, collector. was a substan-
tial fortune To Kirk Anthony of Al
bany. distributor. it was nothing
Suppose he went home and squared
his account with the polite. what
would he do then? Nothing, as usual.
Here, he was proving that the An
thony breed was self supporting at
least And there was another reason,
the weightiest of all. Long before he
had reached the end of his run he real
lied that not 100 times the amount of
this capital prize would tempt him to
leave Panama before he had seen Chi
Quita.
Chiquita was beginning to seem like
a dream. At times during the past
week he had begun to wonder If she
were not really product Of his own
imagination. His fancy had played
upon her so extravagantly that he
feared he would not know her il ever
they came face to face.
This was most unsatisfactory, and
he reproached himself bitterly for the
involuntary faithlessness that could al
low her image to grow dim. He was
almost without hope Of seeing her
again.. And then, with the incense