The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1925-09-03

making that he had not even taken the
time to get married until within the
last year, and then he was sixty years
old. Now he was in situation where
all the money ON earth could do him
no good.
When the now frantic proprietor of
the overwhelming transaction" said
he was willing to give $1000O,0O0 to
stand on solid land, Jack Albright re-
Piled:
Il have a proposition to make, II 1t
would be any relief to you to send
cablegram to your people"
What! We have no wireless out
fit"
II understand navigation" went on
Jack, land l have kept myself in
formed as to the position of this ship
ever since she placidly shed her tail
feathers. l know that we are now
within eighty miles of u small island on
which the new ocean cable which is
now being laid is landed by this time.
The idea Is, you know, to make the
island of which l speak relay sta
ton so as to avoid a stretch Of 1000
miles without break. / am sure that
the cable has reached that island since
We sailed on this old hooker. Nobody
on board has thought of it, if he knows
anything about the subject, and, for
reasons Of my own, l don't intend to
remind any one but you Of the fact.
l can reach that island, and send a
cablegram to any part Of the globe"
IF you can do that, will make you
rich, and you will, in my estimation,
become famous" the tinancier repeat
ed. How can you get to the island?"
| You have apparently forgotten that
you have a motor boat on this ship.
We can get permission to have your
boat put overheard, and l can make
the island in four hours. l can steer
straight to it by compass"
IF you can, you can help me make
lot of money" said the victim Of the
wealth getting habit. II will tell you,
confdentially, that I have heavy
financial interest in a chain Of insur-
ance companies in London. l can send
the officials a cipher cablegram telling
cargo, and the life of every mothers
son Of us. Doubtless we have been
posted. rs lost and the public will
stampede to get such insurance. The
chances are we will be picked up,
some day, and the premiums will be
enormous in the aggregate. The propo-
sition Is not in the nature of a swindle,
for there Is a chance that we may be
lost after all But that is not the
transaction l have IN mind. That Is
something which, in my opinion, over
shadows the insurance proposition to
such q vast extent that the insurance
scheme is, comparatively speaking, in
conceivably neutrality-suspicious.
"Golly sakes alive!' exclaimed Jack.
In my estimation the destruction Of
the world would be slight affair In
comparison with the transaction have
in mind. But didn't you tell me that
you were a newspaper man?'
| II did"
! doesn't your newspaper instinct
prompt you to make big fee by send
ing a report Of the fate Of this ship,
describing existing conditions thereon,
to the leading journals Of the world?"
| II have a better scheme than that.
1 was once discharged by managing
editor for something didn't do. 1t
was about the only time In my varied
| career that was not guilty as charged,
and the nasty treatment I received
nettled me. Besides that, the person
who fired me Is about the cheapest Of
my acquaintance that draws big sal
airy which he doesn't earn. Now, here
Is my plan: After l have worked off
your cablegrams and given them few
days to soak and bear fruit, I will
cable the owner Of the paper employ
ing my enemy. l will say to that own
err that can furnish his paper with a
cracking good, exclusive account Of the
fate of this vessel, and that will not
send q single word until he forwards
proof that he has publicly discharged
that pinhead managing editor with a
| guarantee that he will never be re-em-
ployed. My enemy will either be fred
! or there will be q riOt-mayhap
lynching. At any rate, will get more
satisfaction out of the affair than I
could out Of all the money ever saw"
SO it was arranged that Jack was to
have the motor boat set alloat for the
Ostensible purpose Of scouting in
search Of a sail.
Mr.. Robinson carefully wrote his
dispatch relative to the grand trans
action" and then prepared his cipher
to the insurance people.
| Jack Albright started for the island.
He had an anxious afternoon, but
found his calculations correct. AS he
handed the messages to the cable op-
orator, his eyes took in at a glance the
words:
Say, Doc! Is 1t boy?
| , And as he read this message, refer.
ring to the momentous "transa ction,"
IL