The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1921-10-07

received your letter. Cabling thou
sand for emergency roll first thing to-
morrow. VIII order machinery. Leav-
ing for New Orleans tomorrow night, |
to arrive Buenaventura FIST steamer.
Your letter caught me with a hundred
thousand. We cut it two ways and
take our chances. Keep light in the
window for your old
"JACK PARDNER."
that's a windy cablegram," Neddy
Jerome remarked as the servant bore
it away. "Why all this garrulity? A
eablegram anywhere generally costs at
least a dollar a word" r@''
"That's ~ delight Of shiny
night In the season of the year,"
quoted John Stuart Webster; "and
why the devil economic when the boy
needs cheering upT
"What boy?"
"Billy Geary."
"Where is he?"
Central America"
Neddy Jerome was happy. He was
in an expansive mood, for he had.
with the assistance of kindly fate.
rounded up the one engineer in all the
world whom he needed to take charge
of the Colorado Consolidated. So he
said: ~.
swell, Jack, just to celebrate the
discovery Of your old pal, I'll tell you
what I'll do. I'll O. X. your voucher
for the expense Of bringing young
Geary back to the u. S. A., and when
we get him here it will he up to you
to find a snug berth for him with Col
orado Consolidated"
"Neddy." said John Stuart Webster
"by my har'nM. love thee. You're
a thoug'tfu' 'lindly old stick-in-the-
mud"
"No IFS n,~ hut's. I'm your boss"
| Jerome interrupted. and waddled
away to telephone the head waiter at
his favorite restaurant to reserve a
table for two.
Mr.. Webster sighed. He disliked
exceedingly TO disappoint old Neddy.
but He shrank from seeming to
think overwell of himself by declin-
ing twenty five-thousand-d0llar-
year job with the biggest mining COM
pany in Colorado. but
"Rotten luck" he sollloquized. "It
runs that way for while. and then
IT changes, and gets worse!"
When Jerome returned to his seat.
the serious look in Webster's hitherto
laughing eyes challenged his immedi-
ate attention.
"Neddy," said John Stuart Webster
gently, "do you remember my cross
ing my fingers and saying Kings X
when you came at me with that prOpO-
sition of yours? 1t just breaks my
heart to have to decline 1t. but the
fact of the matter is. I think you'd
better give that job to your brother
after all. At any rate. I'm not going
to take It,"
manded "Johnny. you're crazy in the
head. OF course you'll take it,"
For answer Webster handed his
friend the letter he had just received
"Read that. old horse. and see If yor
can't work up a circulation" he sug
gested.
Jerome adjusted his spectacles anf
read:
Gale de Concordia 10. Buenaventura
"SObrante, c. A.
"Dear John: l would address 20,
as dear friend John, did | but pos
of hearts you are still that, but afte
three years of silence, due to my stu
pidity and hardness of heart, 1t is. per
haps. better to make haste slowly. -
ITO begin, should like to be for
given, on the broad general ground
that am most almighty sorry 70
what l went and done! Am | fOrgiv
en-? | seem to see your friendly oil,
face and hear you answer Aye an
with this load off my chest at last
believe feel better already.
Jack. you poor. deluded old piec
of white meat do you think for a nc
ment that held against you you
testimony for the operators in Crippl
Creek? thought you believed tn
charges and that you testified in
frm belief that was the guilty maj
, as all of the circumstantial evidenc
: seemed to indicate. | thought this fo
three long, meagre years, old frien'
and I'm sorry. After that. | suppos
| there isn't any need for me to sa
, more, except that you are an old fo'
for not saying you were going
spend your money and your time an
: reputation trying to put my halo baC
on straight! doubt IL was wort
1t. and you knew that: but let it pas
: for we have other fish to fry.
r THE nubbin Of the matter Is this
3 There is only one good gold mine lie
: in this weary world--and l have
I It's the sweetest wildcat ever struc
l and we sranii the finest shew In Il
E world of stSsSiag to death IL v
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