The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1921-04-22
SYNOPSIS.


SYNOPSIS.
CHAPTER I.-John Stuart Webster,
mining engineer, after cleaning up a for
tune in Death Valley, Calf, boards a |
train for the East. He befriends a young
lady annoyed by q. masher. thoroughly
%trouncing the pest"
CHAPTER I1.-At Denver Webster re-
est friend. Geary urges him to come to
Sobrante, Central America, to finance
and develop a mining claim. He decides
to go.
CHAPTER III. = Dolores Ruey. the
young woman Webster befriended. and
who has made a deep impression on him,
as he has on her. is also on the way to
Sobrante.
CHAPTER 1v.-At Buenaventura, capt.
tai of sobrante. Billy Geary, ill and pen
niless, is living on the charity of Mother
Jenks.' keeper of a dramshop. She re-
ceives a cablegram from Dolores. telling
Of her coming.
CHAPTER v.-Dolores' father, Ricardo
Ruey, president. of Sobrante, had been
present executive: Dolores, a child of
BY Mother Jenky and SUPPORTED By her
in the United States. The old woman,
life, fears to meet Dolores, and sends
Geary to the boat to say she has gone
to the United States.
CHAPTER v1.-Webster, on his way to
Sobrante, is taken i'll on the train, and
is in a hospital at New Orleans two
weeks. Geary bungles his mission. Dolo-
res easily seeing through his story. She
greets Mother jerks as her friend and
love with the girl.
CHAPTER What New Orleans. while
waiting for the steamer to Buenaventura,
Webster saves the life Of a young man
who is attacked by two assassins. The
youth leaves Webster without disclosing
his identity.
CHAPTER Wilton the steamer Web
ster finds his statsroom occupied by q
being his guest to -Buenaventura. At first
angered, Webster and the stranger, after
amicable agreement. Webster recognizes
him as the youth whose life he had saved
the day before. though the other does
not know Webster.
"Oh, dry up, you sneaking muir
derer," Webster exploded. "There
isn't going to be any duel except on
my terms-so you might as well take
a straight tip from headquarters and
stick to plain assassination. You and
Benavides have been sent out by your
superior to kill me-you got your
orders this very afternoon at the en-.
trance to the government palace-and
I'm Just not going to be killed. Beat
it, boy, while the going Is good" He
pointed toward the hotel door. "Out,
you BLACKBOARD |" he roared. "vaya II
Lieutenant Arredondo rose and with
dignifed mien started for the door.
Webster followed. and as his visitor
reached the portal, a tremendous kick,
we'll placed, lifted him down to the
sidewalk. Shrieking curses. he fed
into the night; and John Stuart Web
ster, with q satisfied feeling that
something accomplished had earned a
nights repose, retired to his room his
mauve silk pajamas, and slept the
sleep of q healthy, c-Onscience-free
nan
At about the same hour Neddy
Jerome, playing solitaire in the Engi'
neers' club in Denver. was the recip
lent of a c%ablegram which read:
IF w. cables accepting reply re
jecting account job filled otherwise
beans spilled. Implicit obedience
spells victory.
"Henrietta."
Neddy Jerome wiped his spectacles
adjusted them on his nose n reat
this amazing message once more
"Jumped-up J~ehosophatI" he muir
INJURED. "If she hasn't followed tina
madcap Webster clear to Buenaven
tura! If she isn't out In earnest tt
earn her fee, I'm an Or%ang-outang
BY thunder, that's a smart woman
All right I'll be implicitly obedient.
Two hours later Neddy Jerome re
ceived another c%ablegram. 1t wa
from John Stuart Webster and rea
as follows:
Hold Job ninety days at latest ma,
be back before. If satisfactory cable.
Again Mr.. Jerome had recourse t
the most powerful expletive at hi
command. Henrietta knew he wa
going to cable and beat the old soul
dough to it." he soliloquized. he wa
wrapped in profound admiration o
her cunning for as much as five min
utes: then he indited this reply to hi
victims:
"Time. tide and good Jobs wait TO
no man. Sorry. Job already file
by better man"
When John Stuart Webster receives
that ~cablegram the following morning
he cursed bitterly-not because h
had lost the best job that had eve
been offered him. but because he ha'
lost through playing a good han
poorly, He hated himself for hi
idiocy.