New Nick Carter Weekly #18 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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j ‘Here's your money A hooting | uy guess they wouldn’t do it more’n _ Mr. Bascum sok from an inside|once,’’ said Mr. Bascum. ket of his duster an old and very larg “Did you see ye wanted tew take a lez Se lect wallet which seemed to be fairly | walk ?’? jursting with bills. ‘Well, I thought you might want to clumsily y drew a one-dollar bill from | look around the twit? _ithe lot and passe¢ | ‘Come along then, I can walk as far é 1 .. an doing so he could not help showing |as any man half my age.’ Watren and the others that ne had a very. Warren opened the door and Bascum a arge sum of money in the wallet | went out ahead of him, | 3 to A yorter r stepped up to take nich bag to| Theystrolled slowly down the sidewalk s room. talking about the weather and crops, b but / you around, | before long Warren turned the conversa~ : x “T shall be glad to show Bascum,’’ said Warren pleasantly, }tion to horses. ' Be ai." )) }f you feel like a little walk.”’ - You surprise me, Mr. Bascum,’’ he | ‘| -**Much obleeged,’’ returned the farmer, | ‘said, ‘wh en you say you were aliveted to \" er be down jest as soot as I’ve learned | | SO anywhere ‘near Mephisto: 1)? _jthe way to my room, “Don’t ‘ep ‘low other people to see | 5 Bon bet it ain't worth more'n fifty | their horses ?’’? asked Bascum. have to stand it. 77, ‘No. They have been keeping — |cents, but I guess I'll _He hobbled up the stairs after the por-| away as much as possible. ‘What makes them so skittish ?”’ r, while Warren and the others in the| | office ie in hearty laughter at his | **T don’t know, and perhaps I was mis- Itaken about it. Tell me just how you did = § exclaimed one of the men, | jt» ople bE = 66) yy? “but be Be he be a mark for some of the} cy hy there ain’t no ‘how’ tew it. touts at Sheepshead!” “Theerd a lot about O’Brien’s horses “No he wor tg jand I was jest amblin’ ‘round the stable } ee not thes Peni well-menn-|' 820 ‘ ag old aches ought to have been “There was a young chap leadin’ of a ' [m going to take care of | Horse up an’ down an’ I asked him about 1s | it, that’s all. t at home. I’m vis bets] | _ He tole me lots of things about it.” lig ees i oe ” dl ‘but Two Wh at, {for instance?” es : a . be Ree ‘Skee of ‘est as petng: as a prize x | fighter, ‘*Kvery mornin’, Ke ‘clock I have to take | “Mephisto, sae n. ‘He had to take Me nis says he, at eleven Mephis—what you i stables and walk him up petty, sagas 0 fora no less, an’ we I ee 1 | ee 3 - a i ‘ f q ao 7 f \ Md is j - - “in - ' ' j : fi | 4 i n i . Ta | i J P 3 - é =“ LY ‘ 4 | i | ~ r _ . a a « a io — . ; EE never | heard lof chat a eal ment ‘Its right though, T gue ss, for foorag Sane! I seen him take t is, but if * Thought ye| Ae dow ior 3 jest |