Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-09-03
SATISFIED AND
SETTLED
How They Came to an
Understanding.
By WILLETT STOCKARD.
Copyright by Frank A. Munsey Co.

Conley had come home, having been
released from prison after completing
a five year sentence.
A few hours after his arrival in town
he entered a squalid place on the west
side not far from the center of Hell's
Kitchen. Besides the proprietor and a
the time, there was only one man in
the place. He greeted Conley's arrival
with a slight show of surprise and
spoke to him.
How are all the boys up the way?"
he asked.
Hello, Wernerl' Conley returned
and related bits of information con-
corning those whom he had left in
prison.
Like to stick in on a juicy little
layT' Werner inquired, lowering his
voice slightly and glancing about to
see that no one was neal them.
Heard of old man Harris, haven't
your continued Werner. He's got
more millions than you and me could
dream We had after a dozen shots in
the arm. Funny old goat he is too.
He's got a bug about punching the
clock just the same and as prompt as
any of his deck hands, which is some
prompt, if they work for him for any
time. Also he's got another kink
about working straight on through
July and August, while he lets every
body else in his shop take from two
weeks to a month off. He sticks il
out without even hesitating till after
the first of the next year, and then
when he gets his business started on to
another stretch, why. he takes a little
thirty day layoff.
"And does he beat it south then
Not him-that amt the old man. He
heads up north to a hut he's got
planted up in Maine, and that's right
where he lives in the dead of winter
He don't have any guide or anybody
else along with him, and he dom
allow anybody else to come anywhere
close to him if he can help it. He
camps there for a month, hunting anC
taking care of what he kills, skinninl
it and putting away the meat an(
cooking it and all that all by himself
as l said. and never seeing another liy
ing thing besides the animals he''
hunting. Funny ideas some of thes'
gazigs have. amt theyf'
where do we ONE IMP interposet
Conley.
We're going to get him at his drum
up there and stow him away-put hin
in hook, you see, and make him pa
himself out-although l amt countin:
on sticking him up for anything 81
much as I'm banking on swinging hi.
wife for, say. five or ten thousand a
the least and maybe as much as TWEEN
ty-fve. Harris head manager is hi,
wife's brother, you see, and 1 think W.
can hang 'em for twenty-five withou'
starting either n to putting the cops
out for us. Leave it to me to make
it plain to 'em that the old mar will be
bumped off before anybody can gel
to u.s.
whats the matter that Harris
won't come across himself wit what
we want. In cast we show it up to him
that we're going to croak him proper
if he don'tf"
You don't know Harris" Werner
answered. in the first place, we
couldn't make a bluff strong enough
for him to think we were not bluffing,
and then even if it had to come to a
showdown, why, l doubt if he'd really
think We meant to kill him and lose
our only shot for the money. That's
the kind of gink he is. You know, he's
the stiff that had a son to get in wrong
some way and get his name in the pa
~pers-beat up a guy and was sent
away for a little bit-and do you think
the old man would come through with
a little fall money that would have
sprung the kid? Nix-not bim-and he
won't allow the kid around his snare
when he comes home"
Werner shook his head, partly in ad-
miration.
That's him, and I wouldn't count
ON a finif from biLa, not just to get
himself out, where I'd bet on getting
thousands from his dame. I've had all
this framed ever since last summer,
and | made a special trip up to scout
about the old mans grounds and the
country arounI there. One reason I'm
first hep to this is because l got a
friend of mile named Turner, an old
timer that's cone five separate bits and
is living up there and making good
money by getting stuff across the
Canadian line, and we happened to
meet up with each other last year and
got to talking about this Harris guy.
Turner knew about him, living no
more than thirty miles away from
there. and we got this idea. Turner
knows places that we could put Harris
away, and he couldn't be found for a
million years.
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