The Argosy, October 1906 — page 156: what you’re looking at

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= and let me see you place that paper on eZ the top of the desk.” = = _. The fellow hastened to obey. a “Now take a chair,” snapped the = young man. “ I’d like to talk with you before handing you over to the sheriff.” oe ‘What you goin’ to hand me over to the sheriff for?’ was the response. =s _ ain’t done nothin’ to hurt you.’ = He fell into a chair, cringing before = the teveled shooting-stick. ee man’s nerves. = “Tf your motives are honest, why ‘didn’t you call here in the daytime and try to secure that paper in an honest way?” ‘“T was only follerin’ instructions.” Whose instructions? ” “ Your uncle’s.” A quiver raced Uscsee the young , “Were you domg this for my uncle or for Nathan Phillips?” : ““E don’t know nothin’- about. Phil- lips.” ““ Where is my uncle? = “ Don’t know. I was to mail that pa- per to him at Mandan.” “T’ll look the paper over and, if I think he ought to have it, Pll send it to him myself. Who are you? < — -* OW Meigs,” was the sullea response. “You're the fellow that jumped Pasco’s claim, eh?” = ™ The man swore under his breath. “Jasper Broderick hired you to do that just as he hired you to do this, I suppose?’ pursued Max. “ Well, I ain’t workin’ for nothin’.” Max sat for a while reflective, no sound but the ticking of the office clock breaking the silence. He finally decided that nothing was to be gained by bother-«. ing further with Meigs. » “Get out of that window again,” said the young man, ‘‘and take yourself off _as quickly as you can.” “Ande I can’t take the paper?” = ? - queried the man. “Certainly not. Give the desk a wide berth when you pass it on the way to the windcw.” Without a word Meigs got up, made his way to the window, and disappeared. Max stepped forward and watched him descend, carry the ladder back to the place where he had found it, and then 3 =z lose himself in the hovering. shadows. : THE ARGOSY. claim-jumpers, Paramore.” ; SS Closing the window, the young man laid aside the shooting-stick, lighted tS lamp, and examined the paper. What he oe learned from the document ‘was suf- ; ficiently startling. It was 2 memorandum of agreement between Nathan Phillips and Jasper Broderick. By its terms the two entered — into a conspiracy to jump certain claims, Phillips furnishing the money to pay the Broderick acting as a. , go-between, and a to” -be eq ually divided. , ==" It was expressly stipulated that Phi eee lips was to be a “silent a and referred to, when See Se. = <a y ug Max extinguished” os feac: ‘replaced the section of board and the Tug, and | went back to his cot.. The- ort document was under his. <pillowi = Next morning he wrote to his unele at Mandan. The Jetter was couched in in language, well ca Cente to | stin ing the conscience of an ord: tinal = haps Uncle Jasper’s. Bee SS The facts connected with Mav's : secur- = SESS ing the Phillips-Broderick agreement were Stated. Max added, furthe that the agreement might prove valuable : to him and that he should retain it and, 3 a if he thought necessary, use it. ase The young man indulged - 5 ex: pressions of gratitude for the gift of | Simitar. Instead, he ‘enclosed his note— for $600, payable in twelve months with interest at six per tent. = = | This letter was duly posted i ti to leave by the Saturday’s mail. Then ment it was out of his ieee: la: asigh of relief. 8 —= He was_ positive | that = SS was what. Phillips was looking for when surprised song Se fee ‘papers = ees the desk.- | The doctor’s FS articles, appearing in that week’s issue of the paper, sent a thrill of excitement eee the | his aetence by Sore ‘the : his heel in Bulger’s. sample- : fhe. Pasco, in the —s a