Williams news., 1922-03-31
(Continued from last week


 "We have, boomed McGuffey, "an' beautiful specimens they be-"
 'No money, no China boy" Gibney added firmly.
 Money have got. Too muchee mon- ey you wantee. No can do.- Me pay two hundred dollah. Five hundred dol 1ah heap muchee. No have got.
 "Nothin' doin', John. Five hundred dollars an not penny less. Put up the dough or beat it.'
 Gin Seng expostulated, lied, evaded, and all but wept, but MT. Gibney was obdurate and eventually the China. man paid over the money and departed with the remains of his. countrymen. q knew he'd come through, Bart" MT. Gibney declared. "They got to ship them stiffs to China to rest along side their ancestors or be in Dutch with the sperrits O. the departed for ever after"
 that dirty Scraggs?" McGuffey wanted to know. "Seein' as how he tried to give us the double cross-'
 "We'n fix Scraggsy-a1l ship-shape an' legal sos he won't have no come back"
 They had not long to wait Upon his arrival at Gin Seng's place of busi- ness Captain Scraggs had been in- formed that Gin Seng had gone out twenty minutes before, and further in- quiry revealed that he had departed in an express wagon. Consumed with misgivings of disaster, Scraggs re- turned to the Maggie as fast as the cable car and his legs could carry him. In the cabin he found MT. Gibney and McGuffey playing cribbage. They laid down their hands as Scraggs entered.
 MT. -Gibney began at once: 'aTo show you what a funny world this is while me an Bart's setttn' on deck a-waitin' for you to come back, along breezes a fat old Chinaman in an ex- press wagon an offers to buy them two cases of Oriental goods. He makes me an Mac what we considers a fair offer. Lemme see, now" he continued, and got out a. stub of lead pencil with which he commenced figuring on the white oi1clOth table cover. "We paid twenty dollars for them two derelicts an' dollar towage. That's twenty one dollars, an a third O twenty-one is seven, an seven dollaSs from twen- ty-f1ve leaves eighteen dollars comin, to you- Here's your eighteen dollars. Scraggsy, you lucky old vagabond-a1l clear profit on a neat days work, no expense, no investment, no back-break- In interest charges or overhead, an sold out at your own figger."
 Captain Scraggs' face was a study in conflicting emotions as he raked in the eighteen dollars. Thanks, Gib," he said frigidly.
 Me an Gib's goin' ashore for lunch at the Marigold cafe" McGucrn~ :'s-. nounced presently, in order to break the horrible silence that followed Scraggsy's crushing defeat. "rm will in to spend some O my profits on the deal an blow you to a lunch with a small bottle O Dago Red thrown In. How about it, Scraggs?'
 I'm on-" Scraggs sought to throw off his gloom and appear sprightly. '.What'd you peddle them two cadavers for, Gib"' MT. Gibney grinned broadly, but did not answer. In effect, his grin in- formed Scraggs that that was none of the latter's business-and Scraggs as- simulated the hint. "Weu, at any rate, Glib, whatever you soaked him, it was a mighty good sale an I congratulate you. I think mebbe I might ha' don.. a little better myself. but then 1t a1n't every day a Teller can turn an ! eighteen-dollar trick on a corpse.''
 "CCmin' to lunch with us?" McGuf- ! fey demanded.
 Sure. Wait a minute till I run | forward an see if the lines is all fast"
 He stepped out of the cabin and | presently Gibney and McGuffey were conscious of a rapid succession of | thuds on the deck. Gibney winked at | 
 Mother new hat gone to h-l," mur- McGuffey.