San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-28
at was an awful lot" he said.

| WaS-Wnat DO you meanE
He pulled a tattered bill from a
package of many, and held it close
to the lamp, at the same time point
ing to words printed across the top
of it. An a curve, Confederate
States of America"
"Aren't they any-any good?"
she asked.
"Not," said Chiffon, "to a girl
whose hair curls naturally"
| He examined the chest closely. It
was quite new; the metal bands but
little bitten with rust.
eve are the victims" said he,
"of one of DR.. Mulholland's prac-
teal jokes"
"An immensely funny one" said
Miss Gardner bitterly. "Ha-ha!-
l laugh. But if you don't mind
I'll take one as a souvenir"
1--WE SHALL take them all" said
Chiffon; eff / can't spend them n
riotous living, I can at least make
oath jerked from his lips, something
flashed in each of his hands, from
these flashes escaped two brighter
flashes accompanied by two sharp
reports. 81
It was over before Miss Gardner
could get to her feet. She saw two
men fall-crumpled, and she saw
Chiffon close with and overpower a
third. And as she reached her feet,
she saw Chiffon drop this third as
sailant into the pool.
"Well, I neverp' she said, and bit
her lips, wishing either that she had
not been heard, or that she had said
something showing more presencs
of mind.
Chiffon was bending over the two
men at whom he had discharged the
derringers. -;
"They're still breathing" he said.
"Thank the Lord for that. Where
are you hurt? Can you hear met"
His answer was a sudden burst OF
laughter. Chiffon snatched the black
mask from the mans face and
recognized the aristrocratic fea-,
lures Of his cousin, young Mr.. RAJ
venel.
At this moment the other brigsl
and sat up and removed his mask.
"Willy Cavendishw said Chiffon
in a mournful voice. "But-but I
shot to kill" j
"You were loaded with blank
cartridges, Bob" said RaveneL
where's the doctor?"
1.-THE DOCTOR" said Chiffon grim.
ly, "is in the pool"
Don't be mad, Bob
"I'm not mad, but why did you
do it? Il might have hurt some
body"
A voice came from the depths OF
the pool-a voice reverberant, hol-
low, unhappy
"You have hurt me, sub. And I
wish to be assisted out Of this place
at once"
Chiffon laughed, and selecting
some popularity soiled and tattered
bills from the chest, he lay down by
the edge of the pool and looked
over.
"Hold the lamp, Jack"
DR.. Mulholland, very red In the
face, and much slimed, looked up
into the downturned faces.
Chiffon reached him one OF the
bills.
What's this for!"
eat it."
"Don't be an ass, Robert--a
jokes a joke"
"No, Doctor" drawled Chiffon.
at isn't. Not when a fellow who
has never harmed you is made to
look like fool in the eyes Of a
young lady, not when he is made to
feel even for a moment that he has
taken human life; not when he has
been made to feel that the future
has hopes for him; not when these
hopes are snatched away. Oblige
me by eating some Of this late
specie"
"Never," Numbered the doctor.
"Don't you know, sub, that / may
catch my death in this placer"
Half an hour later he began TO
eat five hundred dollar bills Of the
Confederate States of America.
Robert" he said humbly, "they
stick in my gorge, suh-and don't
give me any of the rarer issues
some of them are worth ten cents
apiece. Robert, l can't swallow
any more without something to
wash it down. Ny mouth Is like
cotton, subj"
"Shall we let him out, Miss Gard.
ner?" (
81 think So" she said, because
after all most of the expedition has
been fun-velvet."
"Miss Gardner" said Chiffon,
"they Just did it, because you said
you were just longing for an adj
venture-but somehow, feel hu-
inflated and ashamed. No man
likes to show his angry, fighting
side without just cause. / was
hasty with my weapons-toO
hasty."
'If you don't stop feeling huniit-
lated and ashamed" she said, "Iu
get out and walk"
'I'd rather cut off my hand than
have you do that"
There was a short silence.
"Mr. Chiffon"
eyes, Miss Gardner
81 was Just thinkinS-msybs YOU
know of some other tressure-that
we could look for-s-rsal treas
ure."
"0h," said the young man conf
IDENTIFY, 81 certainly do sure