The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1921-07-29
CHAPTER VI-contInued

"And then, of course, you hunted
up AlvaT'
THE next morning, before any bank
opened. I thought over it all night
and got up a peach of a story.
needed 1t. too, for this AIva was a
smooth guy. 1t took some nerve TO get
him, but / knew, through Horner's
memorandum, some things about him
ne never supposed was known up in
this country; so when I sprung them,
nauralIike, he quit being Ofiish, and
gave me the glad hand"
''Who IS he2 A crank?"
Not by Id sight He's a cap
tain in the Chilean army, military at
fache 10 the embassy at Washington,
Entrusted with certain work But he's
really working to overthrow the pres
-ent Chilean government-gettfn' up
revolution down there. / lied until
was black in the face, but l must
have kept within bounds, for he got
to liking me real well. He was
high-rOller, and I put him onto some
things In New York he had never
been steered against before. That
made a hit with him. There wasn't
nothing said about cashing up all day
long, and early the next morning we
breezed into q downtown hotel, and
went to bed"
What hotel?'T
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
q 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 nightT
mot the faintest glimmer. Can you
beat 1t? Alva lost part OF a letter
somewhere. and 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 I cared about. but It
cost the guy hundred bucks, and he
was daffy over IT. Anyhow, that night
put me solid with AIva"
But the money! Hes never drawn
atY'
'Not = dinky red He claims the
time hasn't come yet. and that It's
safer with Krantz. But I've stuck to
him like brother and he's took me In
with his gang. so now I know every
move that's going on. I'm on the In
side. all right, and now it's beginning
20 get hot"
They are ready to actY'
Sure; that's what the meeting was
about tonight"
what are they after-shipsr'
'Well, they've got TO have some, but
mostly arms; then there is guy down
there who's got to be croaked. 1 don't
care what IL is; when the time comes
thsy won't find a handful OF change
to act with I'm some patriot, / am.
and TIL put a bigger crimp in their |
sails than the whole United States |
government secret service"
"But see here, Harris" soberly. |
chow do you know you are going TO /
get this? OF course, / see the game /
the way you've mapped 1t 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 ne gets his
share out Of the pot right away. He's
playing the game secretly on his own
account. Get that? He expects 1t
may be a year. or perhaps two. before
he can cash In on the deal, but when
At does come his share Of profit Will
be likely a hundred thousand That
beats bank interest, and the old bird
"a willing to take the chance"
quite likely that's true; no bank
would finance such a project"
-Of course not-the directors would
throw a fit Wen, now. that kind OF
n guy. In @ q raw dsel IKE thia, IN