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Inglaterra no olvida ell
asesinato de Benton.

"'The Daily Express" de Lon
dras, asegura en- una de sus Glti-
mas ediciones, que ell Ministro de
Relaciones Extranjeras del RENO
Undo, Sir Edward Grey, ha no.
tifcado al Presidente Wilson en-
terminus amistosos, pero termi-
nantes y c%laros, que 81 Villa Ilega
a ser Presidente de Mexico, ell
Gobierno Britannica demandara
una amplia Y cumplida s~atisfac-
ci6n por ell asesinato del subdito
ingl6s Santiago S. Benton, muer-
to a manos de los villistas en- Cd.
Juarez, ell mes de Febrero de es-
tie ano.
Villa, Presidente de la Re-
publica? Nomas ESQ nos falta
para hundirnos mas en- ell despres
tigio ante los oios del mundo CT
vilizado, poniendo aun b&ndolero
analfabeta al frente de los desti-
nos de nuestra infcrtunada pa
tria. Pero la revoluci6n es la
revoluci6n," como dijo un c6le,
bre personaje maderista a raiz
del facil triunfo de la ''gloriosa. ]"
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Propiedades devueItas a
sus duenos.

Ell sabadO notified ell Gobierno
Mexicano al Ministro del Brasil,
acreditado en- Mexico y represen-
tante de los Estados Unidos en-
nuestro pals, que todas las pro-
piedades pertenecientes a Ia com
pania petrolera americana, Wa
tiers Pierce Oil Co., lie serian de-
vueltas y que ell Gobierno lie pa
garfa todo ell petr6leo que habfa
tornado para combustible de las
Iocomotoras usadas en- trasportar
tropas.
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Sc ~multipIican los con
t~rabandistas.

Son verdaderamente alarman-
ties las preparedness que ha alcan
zado en- la Ultima semana el con-
trabando de armas y municiones
de Ell Paso, Texas, a Ciudad Jua-
rez. Gran numero de carros Ii
geros han estado muy ocupados
en- esa tarea, escogiendO lugares
aislados Y solitario5 para introdu-
cir Ell contrabandO de guerra, que
les es pagado a muy buen precio
Dor los rebeldes de Ciudad Jua-
rez. que Sc niegon q decir 10 que
motiva su actividad en- Ia fronte-
ra.
En- Ell Paso, Texas, estan bas-
tantes alarmados p0r esa activi-
dad, que nOsotrOs encOntramos
muy natural, pues los rebeldes
siempre han hecho uso de Ia mis-
ma tactica para proyeerse de las
armas y municiones que necesl-
tan, salvo cuando Sc les ha per-
mitido la libre importation de d.
chos articuIos.
Lo que sucede es que las auto
ridades ignoran cfciaimGic 10
que pasa, aunque clio este a IA
vista De TODD ell mundo. Para
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Guerra Undertaking Co,

La agencia de inhumaciones
del Sr. Ramon Guerra, reciente-
mente faIlecido, seguira bajo Ia
gerencia del Sr. Enrique Guerra,
hijo del fnado. No Olvidar que
esta casa cuenta con carrozas
blancas, aplomadas Y negras, y
Sc encarga del arreglo de CANA
ras mortugrias. ServiciO active de
dfa Y de noche. -Telefono nuevo
1896, -Tel6fono viejos Crockett
1888. ia Dolorosa St.
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MUY HOMBRES.

Todo mundo Sc pregunta asom'
brado porqu6 los chichimecas, az
tecas, tlaxcaltecas, Zapotecas, ba
biecas y otros ecas que forman Ia
gran famiIia meXicana, como di-
cen los editorialistas ramplones,
andan sacandose los dentrOS de
cuatro amos a esta parte. Unos
afirman que es question de demo
cracia, otros que de reparto de
tierras, estos que de libertades
politicas, aquellos que de liberia
des panochisticas, los de mas ALA
que de igudLdGd jguGJ para todos.
yyo confeso que Ia causa que nos
empuja a despanzurrarnos unoS
a otros, es la sencilla, a~plastante
Y contundente de que somos mul
hombres.
No sabremos leer nj escribir;
desconoceremos la manera de vo,
tar, aunque no la de botear, por.
que para ell bote lie damos tres
raya al aleman mas planchado;
ignoraremos ell modo de sacar los
friioles trabajando rudamente de
sol a sol; seremos pesados para
Desar candidaturas de salvadores
de la patria, pero desgraciado de
aQueI que Sc atreva a negar que
somos muy hombres.
BESIDE chiquitos, gracias a esa
cualidad, les mojGmos la orca q
los mas lebrones de Ia escuela,
pisamos en- la raya donde Sc CO.
noce al md5 bomjrc y nos aga
rramoa a los moQuetes con Ell que
nos hace trampas para ganarnos
las canicas a la yeintiuna 0 los
centavos al arrimado y mona.
Despu6s, somos capaces de dis
putar eI amor de una chica apun-
ia de balazos, en- Ia confanza de
Ne Ia Influenza del papa nos ha
de salvar de Ia chinche 81 lie su-
ell resuellO al %contrario.
ADenas empezamos a darle el
golpe al cigarro sin emborrachar.
nos, cuando va cargamOS pistola,
tosemos gordo, escuDimos por
ell coImilIo, dispuestos j no toIe.
rar que nadie Sc nos eche encl'
ma, nj nos dispute una moza, nj
Sc ria de nosotros. Somos muy
hombres y......... basta.
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Dia," uno de los diarios de ma
yor circulation de la Habana, un
pequeno articulo que apareci6 en-
su edici6n ilustrada del domingo
dltimo, al pie de numerosos gra-
badOs a dolores, representative
nuestra bandera: IN soldado del
% Battalion en- actitud de dispa-
rar, un marine americana en- iguaI
posture, Y los retratOs de Huer-
ia, Carranza, Wilson, Villa y de
los jefes de mar TERRA del ejer-
cito americana en- EeracruZ. Ell
articulo en- question dice ash:
Eel pedazo de terra mas rico de
estos confines, porque da cosechas
de frutos valiosos de climas hela-
dos y zafras de frutos sabrosos de
ZOnaS templadas, y porque tlene
por ~arterias y entranas inagota-
bles minaS, que, cual rios de pla-
Ia, inundan las playas de Euro
pa, Y rios de petr0Ieo que dan ca
lor e impulsan a las industries de
la America del Norte; sus hacien
das dan millones de sacos de gra-
nos, enormes piaras de toros y
millones Y millones de pacas de
fbras textiles que alimentan Ia
cordeleria del orbe: csc suel0 rico
Y provide en- granos, ibras y mi
mas, esta agostado Y secO, y Ell
indio aZteCa SURE Y Sc agobia
porQue sangre de hermanOs tine
los campos de la patria e infecta
elhalito de las ciudades, yporque
planta extranjera pesa sobre la
Iosa de la tumba de Juarez Y lie
hace sombra a Ia memoria de Hi
dalgo....
"iQue aura de paz Gree y en-
dulce ell ambiente y logre calmar
las pasiones, para que ell arado y
el silbato de Ia ! ocomotora suplan-
ten por siempre a los canones, los
sables, los rifles Y las terribles
ametrallaGoraSll"
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FL bIoqueo de Tampico.

La tarde del Gltimo sabado, la
Secretaria de RelaciOnes Extran-
jeras de Mexico mand6 una nota
a todas las legaciones, ~notiican.
doles que por orden del Presiden-
tie Sc declaraba bloQueado ell puer-
to de Tampico. Igual cosa Sc no.
tifc6 al Gobierno de les Estados
Unidos por conducto del Embajs-
dor EspanoI en- Washington.
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N~eo-mexicano que desa-
parece.

Ell ciudadano americana de Las
Cruces, Nuevo Mexico, E. Pro-
vencio, acOmpanado del eX-guar-
da de Aduana, Gustavo Duran,
hizo una vista a Ciudad Juarez
y ALI je caycrOn los cOnstitucio-
nalistas eXigi6ndole una contri-
buci6n de guerra, alegando que
tiene propiedades en- ell Etado de
Coahuila y que esta obligadO a
pagan tribute al ''conquistador''
de esas ~tierras, don Nenustiano
Carranza. Provencio, como era
natural, Sc neg6 a c~umplimentar
la orden de los rebeldes y fu6 in
continent aprehendido, sin que
hasta la fecha Sc sepa la suerte
que haya corrido, pues las auto
ridades del lugar dicen ignorar
su ~paradero, y no ha sido possible
encontrarlo en- ninguna parte por
mas que Sc lie ha buscado por car
celes Y cuarteles. Sus amigos
de Ell Paso, Texas, Green que fue
llevado a Chihuahua, aunque bien
puede ser que haya corridO la
suerte del infortuDado Benton.
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BESIDE ell peladitO que bebe pull
que 0 sotol, hasta ell senoritingo
que gusta del Martel cinco letras
o la Champana, los meXicanos
nos sentimos capaces de mojarle
las orejas a Fierabras 0 de rom
perles las costillas a los doce pa
res de Francia, porque Dios nos
hizo muy hombres y al que no lie
guste ell pulque que 10 tire Y mer-
Iue tcpacne.
Y por ESQ, porque somos muy
hombres, andamos a la cerda Pc
leando por zanzibar de capataz
iisfrazado con ell pomposo titulo
lie Presidente de la Repdblica.
Madero era muy hombre y por
ESQ lie arm6 la pelotera a don Por-
trio; Reyes Y Felix Diaz eran
nuy hombres y por ESQ Sc lie echa
ron encima al chaparrito; Huer-
"a es muy hombre y por tai ra-
ION lie hizo tablas ell juego a Fee
liz Dfaz, y Carranza y Villa son
tambi6n muy hombres y ESQ los
empuja a luchar contra ell indigo
ma cue hoy padecemos.
LA Patria? Nosotros, como Ell
Danilo de la Viuda Allegro, nos
reimos de la patria. Bastele sa-
Der al mundo que los meXicanos,
pobres y ricos, chiros y grandes,
tontos y sabios, altos y chaparri-
tos, somos muy hombres y nos
metemos debajo de los sobacos al
que lie parezca nal.
jQui6n Sc acuerda de Ia patria?
Esa sonora va no existe sino en- la
imagination de media docena de
SOnadores, que Ia siguen amanda
a pesar de su lastimoso estado,
de su pObreZa y de las desgarra-
duras de sus carnes y de sus YES
tidos.
iSOmos muy hombres. ALI esta
ell Quid de la question actual. ESQ
del reparto de ~tierras, del sufra-
gio, del hambre de panOcha, de
las libertades politicas, constitu-
yen ell preteXto para matarnos
unos a otros, pues 10 que desea-
mos es que sepa TODD bicho vi.
yiente que tenemos mas calzones
que una fabrica delramo; que So
mos capaces de comernos crudos
al que no 10 crea Y que nos senti-
mos con la necesaria fereza para
darle un metisaca en- la barrigaa
Fierabras, 0 hacerles pedazos las
costillas a los doce pares de Fran
cha.
Ahora va saben mis- lectores
porQuG andamos a la cerda los
meXicanos. Somos muy hombres
Y queremos que 10 sepan las ma
clones eXtranjeras.
Este descubrimiento 10 he he
che 20 merito, y aunque no me
mezclo en- las cuestiones politicas
tengo IA Seguridad de haberle da-
do al clavo.
Andamos en- revolution porque
sOmos muy hombres; ESQ 10 digo
70 y todos tienen que creerlo. FL
que 10 dude que de tres pasos al
frente para que sepa quien soy
20 y de 10 que soy capaz. iYo
tambi6n soy muy hOmbre!
PIPO.
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Entered as second class matter
February 27, 1913, at the post
office at San Antonio, Texas, IN
der the act of March 3, 1879.
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ESQ son autoridades'' como dicen
en- una zarzuelita del genera Chi
60.
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GQuG hacen entretantO los me
diadOreS?

Con mucha i~nsistencia Sc decia
ell viernes en- Washington que los
mediadores sur-americanos ha-
bian protestado contra ell GObier-
no de los Estados Unidos por per
mitir la entrega de municiones a
los rebeldes en- Tampico. Esa
misma noche declare el Secreta-
rio Bryan, que en- ell Departa-
mento de Estado no Sc habia re-
cibido dicha protesta, negando
tambien que Ell Embajador Espa-
mol, Sr. Riaho, que representa- &C
tUalmente en- Washington al Co.
bierno Mexicano, hubiera protes-
tado por 10 mismo.
10 que opinan los representatives
eXtranjerOs.
Los G~iplOmatiCos eXtranJerOs
en- Ia Capital americana demos
.traron csc mismo dia ell mayor in
ter6s por Ia situaci6n meXican&,
pues en- ell case que el Go5ierno q
preside ell General Huerta Sc de-
cidiera a estorbar Ia entrega de
las municiones que van en- canine
q bordo de Ia goleta Guiana An
tilla" de acuerdo con les ieyes in
ternacionales, tendria que dar no
ticia Official de- blcQueo del puerto
a todos los gobiernos eXtranjeros.
Dicha ley estipula tambi6n que pa
"a que IN bloQueo sea recoEOcido
por los poderes eXtranjeros tiene
que ser effective.
Pueden surgir complicaciCnes.
En- los circuIos diplomaticos de
Washington Sc ha generaliz2do
la creencia de que, al decidirse
los Estados Unidos a impedir el
bIoqueo, traeria como resultado
IN sinnumero de compliCaciones.
Noes peQueno ell 10 que Sc ha
tornado con todos estos aconte-
cimientos Y del que nuestro pals
sacara Ia peor parte, 81 los me-
xicanos seguimOs en- nUeStrO cri-
minaI empeno de allegar elemen
tOS para deStruirnOS mutuamente.
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SGuAcRSIt2l H0nhres

Pagamos S20:" Orc senanales a tods
persona que deGiquo TODD ST. tempo a uues-
t-os acgocios; o b:cn S. o-o scaaaaalcs 4 los
cue nos Gcdiqaca so.lmeatc las noches, encar-
Gd-dosc uaos y ot-as dc Ia veRta catre SIC
arcis:adcs Y ot-as Pcrsolas, dc nuestros Relo'
les Y CaGcaas de O-o, Plata y Miguel, Por el
sisteua dc pages rncasuales de UNO y DOS
PESOS ono. Ta@lb.ta pagauos SIS. ORC
semauales 4 las personals Cue sirval COMO
ayudantes e Interpreters de nuestros agenics
T~iajeros cue solo hab!aa iuglts. sneccsa-
rio tercr exPe.ieacia. Uaicamente aceptanos
so.ic.tudes de persoras serias y Temperatures.
Iudiqacse Ia oc1Paci6n actual del solicitante.
GERENTE, p. o. Box os4, Dept. $50
New York, E.U.A.
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E eclipse del progresO mexicano.

ST, colega, Mexico, nuestra
armada pa+ria, seria IN paraiso 81
no anidaran en- 6l las serpientes
del candidate y las tentadoras
Evas de ~nuestras riQuezas natu-
rales.
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SUSCRIBASE I'D. A
LA PRENSA"

Els un peri6dico genuinamente
mexicano, que no tiene ligas con
ninguna facci6n politica.
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La PrenSa es el peri6dico
mexicano de mayor circulation
en- los Estados Unidos, y por 10
tanto, ell mejor para los anun-
ciantes.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-11-11
SYNOPSIS.

Stanley Hargreave, millionaire. after a
miraculous escape from the den of the
rang Of brilliant thieves known as the
Black Hundred, lives the life or a re-
cluse for eighteen years. HargreaVe &C
cidentally meets Braine. leader OF the
Black Hundred. knowing Braine Will
try to get him, he escapes from ms owH
home by a balloon. Before eScapinS ne
writes a letter to the girls school WneTe
eighteen years before he mysterlously
left on the doorstep his baby daughter,
Florence Gray. That day Hargreave also
draws S1.00O,C00 from the bank, but IL Is
reported that this dropped into the sea
when the balloon he escaped in was pune,
tured. Florence arrives from the girls
school. Countess Olga: Braine's compan-
ion, visits her and claims to be a relative:
Two bogus detectives call. but their ploe
is foiled by Norton, a newspaper man.
BY bribing the captain OF the orient NOT
ton lays a trap for Braine ana ms sans.
Countess Olga also visits the Orients
captain, and she easily falls into the re-
porter's snare. The plan proves abortiVe
through Braine's good luck and only hire-
lings fall into the hands OF the pollce.
After failing in their first attempt the
Black Hundred trap Florence. They ask
her for money, but she escapes, again Toll,
ing them. Norton and the countess cali
on Florence the next day. once more sa1e
at home. The visitors having gone. Jones
removes a section of flooring and from
a cavity takes a box. Pursued by men,
bers Of the Black Hundred. he rushes to
the water front and succeeds in dropping
The box into the sea- Countess Olga sue
Feeds in breaking the engagement cyst
ing between Florence Hargreave and Nor
ton. Accomplices Of Braine succeed In
kidnapping Florence while she is shopping
asd hurry her off to sea. She leaps into
the sea and is picked up in a dazed con-
ditton by a party Of fishermen. Inc BACK
Hundred locate her and Braine, disguised
as her father. succeeds in taking her back
to ssa with him. Florence sets fire to the
boat and is rescued by a ship On which
Norton has been ~shanghaied. Norton and
Florence, safely ashore and with no long
er any misunderstanding between them.
take the train for home. The train Is
wrecked and waiting members of the
Black Hundred carry the injured Florence
to a deserted hut. Norton. who tries to
rescue her, is tied to the railroad tracks.
Florence saves him and finally Jones
comes to the rescue Of both.
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And That Is Why Jones Was Able,
Some Weeks Later, to Hide Once
' More the Original Box.
chamber. But there were voices, and
he was going to forget some of them.
After the meeting came to an end,
he waited an hour after, and then stole
down into the street by the aid Of the
fire escape. Later, he entered a tele-
phone booth and called up Jones.
Then, one leathern and steel box,
dotted with bits of ivory and mother
of-pearl, became two; and the second
one was soaked in mud and salt water
for two weeks till you could not have
told it from the original. And that is
why Jones was able, some weeks later,
to hide once more the original box.
AS for the substitute, just as Braine
was about to use a mallet and chisel
upon it, the lights went out. There
was a wild scramble, a chair or two
was overturned.
1.-THE door, the door," shouted
Braine. furious.
1t slammed the moment the words
left his lips. And as suddenly as they
had gone out the lights sprang up.
The box was gone. There were evil
IDENTIFY traitors among the Black Hun
dred.
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changed the arrangements Of a public
funeral for Oliver Goldsmith, it may
be safely asserted as a legal propo-
sition that there was not any likeli-
hood that the dead body would be
seized by creditors. Goldsmith was
buried by his lawyer friends and
neighbors within the boundaries Of
their own domain. He had lived his
happiest days among them, and it was
after all more fitting that he should
lie down to his long rest in the midst
of them, rather than in a garish and
splendid tomb In Westminster abbey.
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CHAPTER XIII.
An Agent From Russia.

The Black Hundred, not as individu-
ais but as an organization, began to
worry. Powerful, and often reckless
and daring because it was powerful,
it began to look about for some basic
cause for all these failures against
Hargreave's daughter and Hargreave's
ghost. They had tried to put the in.
quisitive reporter out of the way; they
had laid every trap they could think
of to catch the mysterious visitor at
the Hargreave home; they had thrown
out a hundred lures to bring Har-
greave out Of his lair, and failed; and
they had lost a dozen valuable men
and several thousand dollars. This
must end somewhere, and quickly.
The one ray Of hope for the conspi-
rators lay in the fact that Florence
had never seen her father and knew
not In the least what he looked like.
They determined to try again in this
direction.
"Give it all up" said the countess
to Braine. Il tell you, whatever is
back Of all this is stronger than we
are. He knows the organization, and
for all we know he may be a ghost"
81 never go back" smiled Braine.
There's something more than the mil.
lion. There's the sport Of the thing.
We've been bested in a dozen bouts,
and nearly always by a iuke. They
have the breaks, as they say out at the
Polo grounds"
But the time and expense when
we might be getting results elsewhere!
I tell you, Leo, I'm afraid. It's like
always hearing some one behind you
and never finding anybody when you
turn. have told you my doubts. 1
have also asked you to trap that but
Ter, but you've always laughed"
You are seeing ghosts, Olga. A
new man from holy Russia" shrug-
cling, lis coming tonight. Evidently
the head over there thinks our contri-
buttons of late have not been up to
the mark, and they are going to stir
us up. l am willing to wager my soul,
however, that that box is simply a
hoax to befuddle US. Either that or it
holds the key. But the rest Of them
insist that the box must be recovered.
When l leave this room tonight l am
going over to Riverdale and stalk all
by myself. I'm going to get a glimpse
of that mysterious stranger. He car
ries a scar Of mine somewhere, foi l
hit him that night"
The door opened and the executive
chamber became silent.
Count Paroff," doomed the voice
of Vroon. He will present his Gre
dentials."
This formality was executed as pre-
scribed by the rules; and Count Par
off was given his chair. He spoke for
d while, rather pompously.
THE head organization is not sat.
isfied with it's offspring in this Har-
greave affair."" he said in conclusion.
"You are SLOW"
Then you have come with some
suggestions for the betterment Of our
husiness?" asked Braine ironically.
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ette," 1t was the time for disappearing.
AN keep out O. my way. I'll git
y yet" growled Blossom.
Keep your mouth shut" said the
mate, "or I'll have you put in irons,
you pig"
All right sir. I've said all I'm goin'
t. say t'day;" and Blossom strobe off.
What was the box like?" asked the
captain Of Dunkers.
Chinese contraption, sir; leastwise
it looked that way to me. Didn't look
as if it'd been in tn water long, sir.
Somethin' lost overheard by some pri-
vate yacht, t. my thinkin'. I'll keep
out O. Steve's way. I'll lay low on
shore, sir"
And though Steve made a perfect
range of the spot, he Eve came back
to find the mysterious box, never saw
the ellison house back home, nor did
he ever see Dunkers again. On the
voyage home he brooded continually,
and was frequently found b%lubbering;
and one night he skipped his watch
and went to Davy Jones locker.
Dunkers had not told about the
name he had seen on the box; and
Blossom had not thought to. The name
Hargreave had instantly brought back
to Dunkers' mind the newspaper
stories he had recently read. There
was no doubt In, the world that this
box belonged to the missing million
aire, who had drawn a million from
his banks and vanished; and, more
over, there was no doubt in Dunkers'
mind that this million lay in the Ba-
hannah waters. 1t had been drawn up
from the bottom Of the sound, under
the path of the balloon. He proceeded,
then, to take a most minute range.
1t would require money and partners;
but half a loaf would be far better
than no loaf at all; and he was deter
mined to return to New York to lind
backing. Finding is keeping, on land
or sea.
Now it happened that his favorite
grog shop was a cheap saloon across
the way from the headquarters Of the
Black Hundred; and Vroon occasion
ally dropped in, for he often picked up
a valuable bit Of maritime news.
Dunkers was an old friend of the bar
keeper. and he proceeded to pour and
guzzle down his throat a very poor
substitute for whisky. He became
communicative. He Dragged. He knew
where there was a million, and all he
needed was a frst-class diving bell. A
year from now he would not be drink
ing cheap whisky; he'd be steering a
course up and down Broadway and
buying wine when he was thirsty.
He was no miser. But he had to have
a diving bell; and where the blue devil
could he get one with $12 and an
~Ingersoll watch in his pocket?
From his table Vroon made a sign
which the bartender understood. Then
he rose and approached Dunkers.
81 own a pretty good diving appar-
atus," he said. IF you've got the