The Argosy, October 1906 — page 48: what you’re looking at

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ve you been able to pull “along? ar ie went | on, turning questioner in turn. nd what sort of a job have you with = Shes ‘people here? = __ Then in a rapid interlocution ‘of ques- tions and answers the whole truth came a ont, 4 ‘ Horace related his wonderful ex- ga _ periences, and Paine was alternately é a= he: heard the = of his. Los eS At the conclusion he could onifaMake _ Vou have dropped the old name, man,” he said; “but you cannot ‘dr z BS your old ‘abilities, You -are.certainly t the” ac: ~~ Boose that lays the! golden eggs. =. of his companion. He had never been — ee az . any of that wily rascal’s-various schemes ; ; | oe had merely rented desk-room in the féllow’s office. ~~ Gaining some inkling of eatkenhast Ss “ true character, however, he had meved his effects two or three days before the — eer iatter Ss flight, and his present visit was am — "which he had overlooked and left behind at the old place. The fact that he and the “ get-rich-quick ” crowd had. sailed — an unfortunate coincidence. : : S: _ They had gone by-different steamers, a = it appeared, and Harry had known noth- ; g of his name being connected with the : Sear until after he had been several — _.. days in‘London. Then, happily, his busi- ness abroad was satisfactorily concluded ~ New York to clear. himself. “But what I cannot understand < this loss of the key and my message,” exclaimed as he’finished. ‘It is a com=" _ plete mystery to me; for I certainly took them up to the Hambletonian and left _ them there the afternoon I_ sailed.” © - “ Well, there 1s only one. explanation,” = replied. Horace, “and that is that some = s _ clerk has mislaid the parcel; and that 3 Side it has giver. me the chance of a life- — time; but as ee ae their necks. — Come on; we'll — overcome with mirth and amazement as his head in wondering appreciation. —__ P «his Sih ae Se 7 ; sae responded, ‘ x Harry’s story was somewhat. different, we’ve had with it. se but. excited no less interest on the part *valuable, so we advertised for the owner, a partner of W ackermann’s, it seemed, in 45 for the purpose of getting some papers - for Europe on the same day was simply - and he had 1ést ‘no time in returning to aes, didn’t want to acknowledge it to- as suppose I ought to bless them, thus ees os that no @ matter of fact, I'd like - eee at | Sa tae hiding piled Ss a “drove aes to the. Aes.» a low I gave ane package 653 ‘Watch Se call him down.” Sa 3 Haughtily he strode up to the ek. = Ses “Didn’t I give you a package about three weeks ago to be. held pending this _ * gentleman’s arrival?” he demanded — sharply,- indicating ‘Horace Ke a jerk of | = his head.= =~ se a The clerk scrutinized any a homens < = then the: light of ao ee sprang: to - = “Ves, you left a “package “her & ‘and a nice lot of trou le You told us it was but-he has never turned 1 up. I wis But ‘Horace broke in 1 here. : fine scorn. ‘‘W hy, =} was rif we here in = the hotel and asking for it about a dozen times a day! £ “Oh, but the package wise far Ps Mr. Clarkson, " cried the clerk eage Ly. “See, here it is,’ drawing out a sled parcel = d reading the superscription. = Teas addressed to” me ‘Sylvester : : Guse’!" ~ = The two men tarned. away without + ae word. Out on the sidewalk Harry brok SSS out with: “Old man, the es are = x me? es a2 think they are on ‘both oP ae Bs rejoined Horace. -“ What an idiot I uae = never to think that in -your hurry — = was a mistake you v were almost bound t ge make.” ees S a z “— = 5 * = we = “The cemetery out in a certain, litt Illinois town, of which ¢ previous met it "has been made in these pages, se a - quently not strange that ‘the lat ~community Fs Ze that one of the ate disturbed and” its contents: 3 “and at night, and eo off disinterred, were