The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1922-02-24

Iell me your plan or campaign"
Webster suggested.
I'm secret rendezvous In the
mountains have 1000 picked men
my fathers veterans. They are armed
with modern rifles and machetes. The
nitrate company, which has been suf-
fering from heavy export duties i'm
posed by Sarros, has loaned me all the
rolling stock of the railroad for one
night. 1t will be modified at San
Miguel de Padua by next Saturday
night; my troops will arrive late the
same afternoon and entrain at once.
"Oid. sport" John Stuart Webster
answered, you went overheard in
Bnenaventura harbor and took
chance among those big, liver-coored,
hammer-headed sharks. And you did
that because you had cause you
thought worth dying for. never knew
man who had a cause that was
worth dying for who would even es-
pouse cause worth swindling for.
You win-only l want you to under
stand one thing, Ricardo I'm not
doing this for the sake of saving that
mining concession the SarrOs govern
ment gave my friend, Geary. I'm
above doing a thing like this for mon
ey-for myself. 1t seems to me must
do it to guarantee the happiness of
two people love: My friend, Geary,
and the girl he's going to marry. l
reject your promissory note and your
promise of deed of gift for that con-
cession, and accept only your graft
tude. There are no strings to this
loan, because it isn't loan at all.
It's bet. If you lose, m help you
! get out of the country and absolve
you of any Indebtedness to me. How
ever, if you should win, know you'll
reimburse me from the national treas
ury"
"And you do not desire bonus?"
Nothing that will cost the citizens
of this country one penny of their
heritage. I'm going to bet this mon
ey-bet it, understand, not loan it.
However, if you want to be sport
and grant me little favor in return,
you can"
Fire away"
"After l give you this money, l
don't want the doctor and the colonel
to kiss me to show how grateful they
are.'
lyon wonderful fellow! Jack Web
ster, if l had sister I should want
her to marry you"
"Show how little you'd think of
your sister-staking her to senti-
mental jackass. Shall cable the
money to New Orleans in the morn
mgr
THAT will do very nicely"
"To whom shall l cable the mon
eyT'
"Send it to the Picayune National
bank of New Orleans. with instruc-
lions to credit account No. GAG, j..
e. p, trustee. In this little game
we are playing, my friend, it is SAT-
err to deal in numbers and initials
rather than names. The local cable
office leaks quite regularly"
Every well, Ricardo, I'll attend to
1t first thing in the morning. Go to
1t and win, or there'll he several new
faces whining around the devil, not
the least of which will be mine. When
you charge, remember you're charg-
ing for my $40,O0O-and go through
with it. l worked rather hard for
that $4,000, and if must lose it, /
do not want to do it in half-hearted
fight. Give me, at least, bloody run
for my money. I'll have a reserved
seat somewhere watching the game"
"if you'll take my advice, you'll go
aboard La Estrellita and stay there
Until the issue is decided. When the
first gun is fired, it signals the open
season on mining engineers who butt
in Oh affairs of state"
What. And me with healthy
bet down on the result! l hope I'm
better sport than that"
you're incorrigible. Be careful,
then, and don't get yourself potted by
stray bullet"
"Shall see you fellows before the
blow-off?"
II scarcely think So"
"Then if you're through with me,
I'll bid you all gOod-by and good luck.
I'll have dinner with you in the pal
ace Sunday evening"
Taken"
May | bring guest"
"By all means
Webster shook hands with the trio
and departed for his hotel. For the
first time in many years he was heavy
of heart, crushed. "Neddy Jerome
was right" he sOlilOquized. This is
the last place on earth for me to have
come to. I've made Neddy sore on
me, and he's lost patience and put an
other man in the job he promised me
I've raised Billy's hopes sky-high and
had to bet $4,000 to keep them there
! I've been fool enough to fall in love
with my friends fiancee; I'm hui
man cats paw, and the finest thing
can do now is to go out next Sunday
morning with that machine gun COM
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