Gentleman Joe's Leadville Lead — page 27: what you’re looking at

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then I’ll let them come. But I’m noshark like you, Mr. Joyce. ’’ “Can’t you say anything, Fanny Calvert, without put- ting an insult into it?”’ ‘‘Perhaps I could, Mr. Joyce, but if would be hard work. It would be hard for me to do it and speak the truth and say what I meant when I was talking with you. It puts me in a bad place—It puts me in a bad place, as you say.”’ ‘“T’l] tell you this, Fan Calvert, that if you want to ask me anything, or make any sort of a proposition to me, or want to borrow any money, or want to give me any, or. want to enter into anv sort of a trade, I’m willing to talk with you. But I don’t-like to stand here and let you shoot wild with that sort of talk, for somebody might hear— somebody might hear!”’ Jared Joyce sank his voice almost to .a whisper as he spoke these last words. ‘‘So they might, Mr. Joyce. Andsol’m going to give away your whole game here at Leadville, and have you fired out of town heels over head—tumbled right down from a ten thousand foot level above the sea to a five thousand—a whole mile! What do you think of that? I’m meaning just what I say, too.’’ ‘‘T don’t understand you.’”’ ‘‘Then tell me the truth and I’ll make it plain. What sort of game are you playing on Kid-Glove Kit, and what sort of a scoop are you going to make of him?’’ ‘‘T wanted to make some sort of a trade with him— some sort of a trade.”’ ‘‘And get him to intrust his money to you?”’ ‘“Something of that sort—something of that sort.” ‘But you weren’t doing it for yourself alone. Somebody has been putting you up toit. It must be an enemy of Kid-Glove Kit’s. I don’t know much about this Kid-Glove Sport, and I don’t care very much about him, except that he is honester looking than some others, andthe very fact that you are playing a game on him shows that he is de- cent. Now, who is putting you up to all this? Whois your partner in the game?”’ ‘‘T can’t say that I have a partner,’’ + a 2 : whe ee 7 yr micbooks.com | M i > * = = aad er - tS