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Makers also of Mathieu's Nervine the best bom: oF ng Lg bb ig ve 3 a A lean woman and 'ong near- ly always €mvy each ¢ Copyright, 1913, by STEWART EDWARD Doubleday, Page & Ce. CHAPTER IX. We Compare Notes. E found McGlynn in line about a block down the street. When he saw me coming he pulled a fat buckskin bag from his breeches pocket, opened its mouth and shook a quantity of its couteuts by guess into the palm of his hand. "There you are" near enough. I'm a pretty good guess: er. 1 hope you took care of the mules all right. You ought to, you're from a farm." "1 fixed "em." "And the mud? did you get stuek 7° "Not at all." He looked at me with surprise. "Would you think of that now?" sald he. "You must bave loaded her light." "I did." "Did you get all the goods over?" "Yes." "Well, I'll Judgmatical young man. and If you want a job with me I'll let that lawyer go 1 spoke to the judge about. He banded it to me then, didn't he?" He laughed heartily. "No? Well. you're right. one but himself. Where's your bag? Haven't any? How do you carry your dust? Haven't any? 1 forgot: you're a tenderfoot, of course." He opened his buckskin sack with his teeth, and sald he: "that's How many times of his hand. Then Le searched for a moment in all his pockets and pro- duced na most peculiar chunk of gold metal. It was nearly as thick as it be handed to me. he; "you can get it weighed. the change next time you see me." morrow," I objected. "Phen leave the change with Jim Recket of the EI Dorado." asked curiously. "But if you need $25 worse than you do a decent couscience then John A. McGlynn isn't the man to deny you!" "JONGhyY dnd 1 Tet forthe Hotel. ~~ "] didn't know you expected any mail,' sald L "I don't." } "But thought I saw you In line" -- *Oh, yes! ly as 1 could and got in line. place prefty well up in front. Sold the place for $5, and only had to stand there about an hour at that." "Good head!" 1 admired. "I'd never have thought of it. How have you got- ten on?" "I tried all morning to find a decent opportunity to do something or deal in plunged in for odd jobs. I've been a regular errand boy. I made $2 carry- ing a man's bag up from the ship." "How much all told?" "Fifteen. I suppose you've got your pile." "That twenty-five you saw me get is the size of it." Johnny brightened.. We moved up comradeship over delinquency. It re- had failed. To enter the Plaza we bad HIGH GRADE, Ale, Porter and Lager . 1 beg to advise my patrons throughout the city and district that | am prepared to supply the trade and private families with the above goods, delivered at t heir doors, which are decidedly the best brands on the market in these lines. " THE OLD NAME the old fame, the new qualitty. of the day, highly recommended petizing, healthful and strengthening 2% % tonic. JAMES McPARLANS ' 7" 76 Brock Street. Canada's greatest ma%¢ beverage by the medical faculty as an ap- hone 274 1 3 2 He Joi Fifeaes f gf acknowledge rou're a | A man's a fool to work for any | "I don't," replied McGlynn bluntly. | "Pretty rotten," confessed Johhny. | something, and then I got mad and | closer in a new intimacy and sense of | lieved both to feel that the other, too, ! ~0 ning off a single nuwber Lad befallen him. me. The other three players were laying their bets for the next turn of the wheel. Johnny swept the gold pieces into his pocket and laid back the orig- inal etai® against even. [le lost. the building. F followed him to the hotel some- what gloomily. for I was now the only member of} our party who had not wade. good 'the agreed amount of the partnership. myself doubt that Talbot would have the required sun. Johnuy. his spirits quite recovered, whistled like a lark. We arrived just in time for the first supper call and found | Yank awaiting us. | and taciturn and nodded to us as in- | differently as ever: Talbot. however, | was full of excitement. His biscuit brown complexion had darkened aud flushéd until he was almost Spanish black, and the little devils in his eyes led a merry dance between the sur face and unguessed depths. [le was 'also exceedingly voluble and. as usual when in that mood, aggravatingly indi rect. on like a small boy and insisted on or dering an elaborate dinner and a bot tle 0? champagne in the face of even poured bick the gold from the palm | was wide, shaped roughly into an oc- { tagon, and stamped with initials. This | | "It's about a fifty dollar slug." said t tive me | "But 1 may leave for the mines to- "How do you know I'll leave it?" I When I saw the mail | sacks it struck me that there might be | quite a erowd; so 1 came np as quick- | There | were a number before me, but I got a | "Ten to one--3$220!" he muttered to i me. | Johnny's scandalized expostulations. | When Jobnny protested against ex- | penditure it was time to look out. We-lit our pipes and sat down at one end of the veranda, where we would not be interrupted. "Fire abcad, Yank," advised Talbot "There's two ways of going to the mines," said Yank. "One is to go over land by horses to Sutter's Fort or the new town of Sacramento and then up | from there into the foathills of the | big mountains way yonder. The other i'is to take a boat and go up river to | Sacramento and then pack across with horses." . "How much is the river fare?" asked | Talbot {| "You have to get a sailboat. It costs | about $40 apiece | "How long would. it take?" | "Four or five days" | "And how long front here to Sutter's | Fort by horse?' 2 | "About the same* = { "Depends, then, on whether horses | ' | and oof it ourselves." } "Then I should think we ought to i have a boat." | "I got one," said Yank. He joked ant teased and carried" - THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1917. - | | aud balf of that dees not belong to { luck. "That's the best I can do." I ended, me. | can, however, in a few days scrape up the full amonnt There is { plenty to do bere. And. barring bull | like Jo I dou't see much | show of Leating that unless a man set- i Lnny's, | tied down to stay here." Talbot stiired at me ruminatively un Lil qo to get restive: then he with. drew is eyes. He made no comment "] suppose you hgve your money," | suggested Yank to him after a pause. | get it? "Oh, yes." sald Talbot as though awaking from profound reverie "Well, tél us about it. [Mow did yon How long did it take you?" "About half an hour. 1 figured that i everybody in a place Hke this would be wanting news. So 1 sorted out that bundle of old newspapers you fellows | | were always laughing at, and 1 went | | | out and sold them." y "Ten to one--$220!" he muttered to | | I'hereupon he promptly arose and left { | | It is significant that-nev- | er for a moment did either Johnny or | Taibot and | Yank was as cool | | because It is sandy. | just for fun. | and looked out over the bay. | cle. "How much did yon ret, for. pen asked Johnuy. % | "4 dollar aplece for most and 50 | cents for the rest. 1 came out $270 | ahead all told. That. necessary amount." Johnny arose and kicked himself sob { emnly "For not guessing what newspapers | were good for," he explained. "Go on! What pext? What did you do with he rest of the day?" CHAPTER X. Talbot Deserts. ALBOT leaned forward, and all the animation of the dinner ta- ble returved to his manoer and | to his face. "Boys." said he earnestly, "this Is | that bas | Tbere has been nothing | like it in the past. and there will never | | be aurthing like it again. tue most wonderful ever beea! town After | haa sold out wy papers 1 went wandering across the Pluza with my hands jiu my | pockets. Next the El Dorado there is a bole iu the ground. ing at it twe men came along. After they had gone on 1 paced off the hole It was twelve feet square by about six feet deep. Then 1 walked on down toward the water front and | talked with all the storekeepers. They do a queer business. All these goods we see around came out here ou con- signment. The local storekeepers have | a greater or lesser share and sell main- | ly on commission. Since they haven't any adequate storehouses and can't get | any put up again, they sell the stuff mainly at auction and get rid of it as | quickly ag possible. That's why some | things_are so cheap they can make | pavemdnts of them when a ship hap- | pens to come in loaded with one artl- I talked with some of them and told them they ought to warehouse a lot of this stuff so as to keep it over | until the market steadied. They agreed | with that, but pointed out that they | were putting up warehouses as fast as | they could, which wasn't very fast, and in the meantime the rains and dust were destroying their goods. It | was cheaper to sell at auction." "And a heap more exciting," put in | Johnny. "I went to one of them." "Well, I wandered down to the shore It was | | full of shipping, riding high at anchor. | | I bad an idea. 1 hired a boat for $5 | and rowed out to some of the ships. | Believe me or not, most of them were empty, not even a watchman aboard. | 1 found some of the captains, however, and talked with each of them. They | all told the same story." "Crew skipped to the mines, I sup- pose," said Yank. "Exactly. And they couldn't get any more. So I offefed to hire a few of | them." "The captains?" I inquired. "No; the ships." "The what?' we yelled In chorus. "The ships." { "But if the captains can't get | crews" -- { "Ah, I don't want to sail them." | went on Talbet impatiently. "It was | hard work getting them to agree. They | all cherished notions they could get | crews and go sailing some more--good | old salts! But I hired four at last. | Had to take them for only a month, however, and had to pay them in ad- vance five hundred apiece." "lI beg your pardon," sald Johnuy softly, g'for Interrupting your pleasing tale, bit the last item interested me. | 1 do not know whether I quite heard it right." (Continued Next Saturday.) Men who have seen better days as a rule looked at them too often through the bottom of whiskey glas- ses. 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