Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1921-08-11
CHAPTER vl-continued

"And then, of course, you hunted
up Alva7"
"The next morning. before any bank
opened. I thought over II all night
and got up a peach of a story. l
needed IT, too, for this Alva was a
smooth guy. 1t tooE some nerve to get
him, but knew. through Horner's
memorandum. some things about him
he never supposed was known up In
this country; so when / sprung them,
natural-lIke, he quit being Offish, and
gave ne the glad hand"
"N,o is he? A crankf'
"NJt by a id sight. He's a cap
tat al the Chilean army, military at
tache to z ssy at Washington,
intrusteL e-.r .ar in work. But he's
really workin. % erthrow the pres
ent Chilean government get in up a
revolution down there I'D until
was black in the fac agj : must
have kept within bounGs '.r ae got
10 liking me real well. He us g.
high-roller, and l put him on ..Ua
things in New York he had Lnvef
been steered against before Tina,
made a hit with him. There wasn't
nothing said about cashing up all day
long, and early the next morning we
breezed into a downtown hotel, and
went TO bed"
"what hotelT"
Search me. We'd been tanking up
on champagne and were drunken in
the morning than when we turned In.
That's the honest truth. All either of
us wanted for breakfast was a cup of
coffee. We got that at a little dump
on some side street, so as TO brace up
a little" He paused to laugh at the
recollection, helping himself to a third
cigar.
"And you actually retain no knOwl-
edge Of where you spent the night?"
mot the falntest glimEler. Can you
beat itl Alva lost part of a letter
somewhere. and a curious sort of box
he had picked up in Chinatown. He
put them both in his pocket, so he
says, but that was the last he ever
saw of either. Queer looking box that
was; nothing cared about, but It
cost the guy a hundred bucks. and he
was daffy over Il. Anyhow, that night
put me solid with Alva."
But the money? He's never drawn
itr"
mot a dinky red. He claims the
time hasn't come yet, and that it's
safer with Krantz. But I've stuck to
him like q brother and he's took me in
with his gang. so now / know every
move that's going on. I'm on the In
side, all right, and now It's beginning
to get hot"
''They are ready to act?"
.ssA--ge; that's what the meeting was
SOut tonight"
"What are they after-shipsT'
"Well, they've got to have some, but
mostly arms; then there is a guy down
there who's got to be crOaked. l don't
care what 1t is; when the time comes
they won't find a handful OF change
to act with. I'm some patriot, / am,
and I'll put a bigger crimp In their
sails than the whole United States
government secret service"
But see here, Harris" sOberly,
''how do you know you are going to
get thisf OF course, / see the game
the way you've mapped It out, but
suppose Krantz pays in check, or draft.
That spikes your gun"
HI yes; but he won't. I've sized
up this man Krantz. He's In the game
for money. He don't care who wins
the d-n revolution, for he gets his
share out OF the pot right away. He's
playing the game secretly on his own
account. Get that7 He expects it
may be a year, or perhaps two. before
he can cash in on the deal, but when
II does come his share of profit will
be likely q hundred thousand. That
beats bank interest, and the old bird
is willing TO take the chance"
quite likely that's true; no bank
would finance such a project"
''0f course not-the directors would
throw a At. Well. now, that kind Of
guy. in on a raw deal like this. Is