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. - aaanaf' aBa v , . f iiiii r' mi mm. aw m wuu - 1 at ull l" 'i if' . iM - fOnpyrlsht ISOB. by W. a. Rmt.) THERE eta b few better place! In the world than Gibraltar for - meeting eld persona. To atay there la like watching 1 the act some Play of manners crowded' with characters alj, of whom have special and Individual peculiarities. In Gibraltar, that nt bill of a hundred nationalities, Moor and Christian and Jew nib elbows with one another; a- babel of different tongues confuses the ear Engllah. Spanish, Arable aaunter through W ater port atreet In the afternoon (It Is like . the high street or an English market town, and the massive gray stone of its - houses, with their -Georgian sir, makes queer impression under that south "era sky), and you wilt aes many strange things. Bailors of all nations lounge Idly by .the Spaniard's side, and dark' vjiq Stria in ron iniKm, ccumpinira uj tduenaa, walk quickly with modest bear ing. English ladles, of mature age, ride peat with callow subalterns attendant a. British regiment passes with resonant .tramp to the playing of fife and drum. while little Arab boys, naked of leg, trot along, the curb, whistling, of all tunes, ' "Rule Britannia." - And In the taverns, where Andalualan lasses. In the national dress, are dancing the bolero, the man-o'-wars man drinks his grog. the Scot his whiskey. , while the Span- lard, smoking his incessant cigarette, lps the light white wine of Mensanllls. to one or thee I used often to go. kitting for hours to watch the faces of all those people, and striving to discern their oharaeters from the way they held themselves, or their expression while they talked. . Here- I smoked one Saturday night wnen tne place was so run that I could get a seat only at a table where aat an- other man. I paid no particular atten- , tloa to him till presently he aJaased I . me. "Rum lot, aren't theyr he exclaimed Suddenly, as though his thoughts went parallel with mm. , 'I turned round and saw a wiry, sun burned fellow, whose appearance waa not a little remarkable. He waa about fifty years of age, shabbily dressed with - that mixture of English and Spaniah clothes assumed by those who have soent man v mn In the emifitrv; a nA "the look of his face-suggested that he was a hard drinker. - But there was strength there - ss well, and character. The blue eyes were sharp and alert; bis boss waa strong, largo and obstinate. "I see you've lived a good deal la pain." I said. '.',. k " , - "Thirty years." ! 4 '. ' V.'" - ' ;-', ' '' "EnglneerT" 1 asked, i ' ,, i . ., 1 ( At that rats, I thought, the conver sation would not proceed rapidly, but f mm .ways inieresiea in tailing witn an Englishman who has lived long In pain. It Is from such mea as the, whose avocations ' throw there Into In timate . contact With ths people,, that most can be learned of that curiously Impenetrable race. I offered him aome- ease. I noticed that hs added singular ly little water to his whlnksy. "By George,"" be said, "thata good Stoff! Can't get It up In the moun tain a you know. - Have to put up with aguardiente and muck like that" . , Hs lit the clgsr and blew out the amoks In heavy clouds. He looked at . the cigar waa to his liking. An expres Blon of greater content paaaed over hla restless face. In which there was al ways a look as If he sought something continually; ; those sharp eyes of his w -, ' kit 4ifltav4 n v T.- ortr my shoulder ss If perpetually on .the lookout. But now a certain genl- -allty aetsed the atranger-and 1-saw-he was disposed to be communicative. "After all. one' hasn't much to com plain of whan one haa a drink and a good cigar, a comfortable place Jo sit lm and a., few daneea tn lack tL" "Toe must have seen some queer things la your time," I murmured ten tatively., - The engineer turned to me suddenly. "Cyou know that somewhere In "An dalusia the biggest fortune In -the world Is lying ready to be -picked op by any one who finds It. and millionaires will be paupers beside .of him. It's tbere waiting, waiting!" He finished ths whiskey and' called for more. ' " "Ten see me," he added. "I dotit look very prosperous, do IT Well, ' I tell you that if chance hadn't played me1 a cm eed trick f alrouhl be a richer nan than Rothechlld."- ", "Found a mine!" X asked. - 'v. ' i TIIZ fNo. that's lust what I -didn't.' answered, with a bitter laugh. "Would you like to know about UT" " "Fire away!"', .. "Well, I was manager of a mining company . In Seville you t know the mines In Spain are all run by foreign ers I -suppose It's the richest- coun try In the world In the way of mineral resources, take It all In all. When peo ple wake up to the, fact that ths earth out here Is Just a maas of ore well, ther won't go out to the Cape." ' , "What were your mlnesr I asked. Copper pyrites. They brought in a good deal of money, I can tell 'you. Anyhow, -X was sitting In my office one dsy when a clerk cams In to say that a priest wanted to see me. Hs wouldn't give-bis name or business. I had' a good deal to do, and answered that 1 was too busy, to see him. In a min ute the clerk cams back and told me the priest had eat hlmaelf down and Instated on waiting till I was free. They told him I might be engaged all day, but hs sa Id It didn't matter, he would watt still. . I know what those Tel lows are. so I had him brought In." -'"How long was this agoT, , "About ten years. Well, the priest appeared. He was a tall man for a Spaniard, about sixty years - old.' 1 should say, with grizzled hair and a three days' growth of whits beard. He'd lot a lung, lean faoe, something llktlyi a horse, yellow as though' he suffered from a chronlo jaundice: he was ss thin as If every day la the year were a fast. He wore Ji enapoy biacg sock, threadbare Vnd almost green with age; here end there It was untidily patched, and It was all frayed at . the bottom.- His great sharp bones seemed to stick out of It as If they would pierce through. - - I've , never seen a thinner man In my Ufa He took off his- bat whan . he came Into my office and apologised for troubling ma The words seemed to come out of his mouth without any movement of the lips, and be spoks with a sort of hesitation as If he were deadly frightened. - " Tpon my' soul.' 1 said to myself, this Is a queer -card. I wonder what he wants. I found the priest wss taking me In orettr thoroughly. ' His eyes started at my feet and traveled slowly up till they) met mine, and then stopped stin. All line time ne wss mere ns never took his eyes orr me. when I turned they followed me . suspiciously; they wstched every movement of my handa; and all the while his long, yellow face remained without any trace of expres sion. ....,..,;.'.... " "Won't you sit downr I said. - "What can I do for your For - a moment he didn't - answer. and I wondered If hs was bit wrong in his mind. 'Am I right In thinking you're a mining engineer, senorr . he asked at laat ' . .a r Ton are. - " 'You're the" manager f" the "Com pany r ,.-, , - Tee.' "He pauaed again and 'his " ayes seemed to gather themaelves together, as It were, to look more keenly Into mine. But I grew Impatient. " Look here: I've got no end Of work to do, . I purpose you didn't come here to pass the time of day.': if you've- got any bualneaa to do, do It; If not, you'd better clear out. , "He took no notice of my speech. ' i -Trrott- must know all that's to he known about mines 'and mining, he said very slowly. - " 'Well. I know a 'good deal,' t laughed. "He hesitated and then ' the ques tion slipped out of his lips In that old way. so that I m'ght have thought somebody else whom I couldn't sea was talking. -. f WouM"you knew a piers -of we -if you saw it r . - - - , - "I started and looked at him with mora Interest. It struck ma ths old man might have hit upon a mine. I'd heard of that sort of thing before la Spain. I didn't answer, and the priest get h-41f tea -bis-long black cs eock and from some Inner pocket took, a rather bulk paroel wrapped, U a CHECC.J DAILY -JOUlNAli, rcriTLAIID, SATURDAY common red handkerchief.--He undid It alowly, with trembling fingers, and all the time his sirange eyes watched me closely. He came forward to the table and laid on It a great lump of stuff about aa large as ray two oats put to gether.. . . -ryo.haahatr-I -crled.- "I had expected to see copper pyrites or soms Iron ore of sorts, -for that Is what we chiefly go for In southern Spain. ; I knew the look of them, and there was neither. But It was ore right enough, though I didn't for the life of me know what. I looked upon ' the prleat and I saw that hla sallow oheeks were wan and he breathed heavily; hla keen eyes sparkled as they watched my aatonisbraenL ".'It's ore, but I don't know what. do your . .. . ; - "Aa axpreaalon of Indescribable cun nlng paaaed over his faoe. - " 'I know nothing ot mlnea" How ahould IT Can't you find out what It isr .. .-',- ; .. - - "I - turned - It over thoughtfully. I was certain he' knew very well but for some rruran woman l say. , - ;.. " 1 shall have ti send It to "London.1 " "Very well, do so.' - v "Tee; but hadn't you better explain a bltt How -did 'you-come -y this? Where did you find Itr ' J 'Ah, that Is my secret I Will show the ere is. And we must have a lit tle agreement I want half of every thing you get do you agreer "'It Is a mine, then? Whereabouts? Ton can surely tell me1 that r "It's not very fsr-from Granada. I found It when I waa wandering about tne mountalna It s an old Koman mine, but It's hardly worked at all. I've atudted orea all my life, and I know what it la But you-sball eee for your self.' He spoke still In ths same even tones, without haste, though I saw he was enormously excited. 'And I tell you the ore, Is Just lying there on the top of the earth. Ton can . pick It up as you walk along.' . " 'Do you think there's much of Itr ! asked. "''Much! There's enough to pay the national aeot or Spain ten tlmea over, " "Well, look here, It's all . very ex traordinary, but It'a no good ocr going into ths matter till I've bad this ax amlned. I'll send It along to England at once. Leave me your address snd In three weeks I shall be able to let you know exactly what It la' "He put his hsnd on mine quickly. " 'Remember, I'm ; to have half,' , he SSld. ' ' 1 . : '.:',..'. "I nodded, snd gave him a pen and a piece of paper to put his name down. Ho wrote painfully, like a man unused to writing, and his largs scrawl ..wss scarcely legible. - I looked et It snd found ths priest waa called Vicente Orla y Masallon; be lived In Granada, In the Calle Alfonso Trees, No. ?.- I put the slip of psper In my pooketbook and showed him to the door. . When he shook bands he told me that 1f I wrote to that address he would coma to Be vllle at once, and then, the agreement between us properly signed,' hs would lead me to the mine. I went back Into my office and turned over the lagged piece ot ore; wondered what It was, and whether the mine, if such really ex isted, could be profitably worked. . ""Who' knows r -I said to myself. "Perhaps ths oldman's right and I may be .on the highway to making my pile.' ' " - '-' - "I packed "It TBmyelT and-ssntlt to England that- night I was over whelmed with work at that time, and ths whols mstter slipped from my mem ory, till some three weeks later,' among my letters I rousd one from our ana lyst I opened It without much ou- rloslty. 1 At first I could hardly believe tnr ayes. -r My heart began-to -beat so violently that I thought i should faint Mr head swam. For that- piece tf ore contained gold, gold In such quantity that ths mine from which it came must be the richest in the world, I began to laugh hysterically, like a woman, and the sir grew suddenly so thin' that i eouta oaraiy breathe; I seemed t6 train oa . neiMftaU - balghU, bat . 4 pulled myself together. After all, I was a business man, and . It waa stupid to be so overcome, as methodically ss could I took from my pooketbook the old priest's address, and I felt . sure now that he knew all tha tiros this secret of -fabulous-wealth. I -went to the-TJOstofOce myalf and T wired him to com to Seville at once. I returned to my offlcs and tried to go on with my work, but my thoughts wsrs no longer under my control. , How- could I pay attention to humdrum affairs WhefPthero lay within my reach a for tune so enormous that the world Itself wss at my feet? Then It occurred to me that the prleat . might not . have money for tha journey, and I went to the poetofflce again and sent . him : a note for a hundred pesetas. .. -"Knowing at what tlms hs could ar rive, I went to ths station to meet him; t resolved not to let him ouf of my sight till' he had told me exactly where the mine waa, I was consumed with ths desire to sea It with my own ayea - Gold,- gold, gold! "With feverish anxiety I watched ths people get out of the train, and ha wss nowhere to be seen. I cursed the Spanish dllatorlness which hsd made him linger. - No other train arrived for It haura, and I did not know how to bear my Impatience. I telegraphed again, bidding him hasten. and again went to the station. Onoe ore I tHnr that egnwy nt Tpac. tlon and bitter disappointment I met a third train and still he did not come. I began to grow seriously alarmed. I could bear the suspense no longer. There was a train lust -starting for Granada, and I Jumped 1n."I ahall never forget ' tha endleseneea of that journey and my desperate excitement aa - each station brought ma nearer. - I had no luggage to- hamper me. arid when at laat we arrived X took a cab at once and drove to the Calle Alfonso Trace. It was a poor street and the, house la which the priest lived wss a great ramshackle building, originally perhaps ths residence .of some nobleman, ' but now Inhabited by a score of - shabby famlllea. I asked tha flrat ' person I met for Don. Vicente and waa told he lived In one room ' on ths top story. --'Is he In nowr .' " Tuede, ser. it t may be. I'va not seen hire for several days.'- - "A little boy led me 'to the attle and with wildly beating heart I knocked. At last at last I There waa bo an swer.- I. knocked again -and from an other room a woman came oat "Do you want t Don - Vicente? He went away a fortnight ago,' 'A sudden blackness came before my ayes, and X could scarcely restrain a sob of disappointment - But-I'vewrltten . and telegraphed mm.- .- - . . "Ah, yes; I have the -tettere here.' "She brought me the three telegrams I had sent and tha letter, all unopened. 'And where haa . ha goner, I asked. desperately. " "Ood knows,' shs answered, shrug ging her shoulders. "Feeling as though the earth were giving away under my feet, I walked alowly down the atalra .. What eould I do but wait till it pleaaed the fool to come back? 'And there the' gold waa lying, and any day aome pesssnt might stumble sgalnst a piece of ore, take It to Granada and' give the secret away. The only thing that suggested Itself wss to go to tba bishop and ask If any thing was known of the priest but at the chancellory they tojd me he Was unattached to any diocese,' and no one knew where ha had gone. Then X cross- questioned his neighbors." They could tell gie -nothing., but Don Vicente hsd been 'used ' to HVS In great seclusion, and aven the woman next door knew no mora than his name. I asked whether she had a key of his room. bat shs -toldm- no- one - ever entered It but hlmaelf. snd ths door confronted ms coldly, -maddeningly; perhaps - be hind It In soms notebook or other lay the secret of ths mine, v , , - "i waa obiigea to return to nevnia. and, hoping against hope, I thought the priest might be watching for. me there. '"Again I waa diaappotntea. Then I became oosvlaosd. thai ha was wander- EVteIK3o AUGUST - V Ing about !n the .neighborhood of the mine, and the awful thought seised me that ths Idea of so much gold had turned hla brain, aa it wag almoat turn Ing miner and f ha had lost all recollec tion of ma and hla own Identity.' It would -haowlbre'"irrwhenairiasr"l found 'him, he waS a gibbering lunatic from whom I could ' get no . word 'of sense. I put advertisements In all the Spanish papers, : asking Don Vicente Orla to come at once to a certain ad dress 'where he would ' bear' news to his great advantage. : There was no re sult Then .X offered a reward for any one who could tell ma his whereabouts. This I thought must bring something, for all Spaniards read the . Ill-printed flimsy rags which pass here for pa pers, - and there was . no periodical in the remotest province which did not contain day after day. 'my announce ment I advertised . so much . and so often . that the prees grew interested, and wild rumors flew about' with re gsrd to ths causa of my anxiety to dis cover this strange priest; presently Don Vicente Olio became as well known a name aa any m Bpaln. - Tha whole pop ulation1 waa on tha alert to discover htm,, and yet there waa as trace. . ' "Meanwhile that lump of ore,' prom ising gold In fabuloua quantities, stared aim day ana nlgl I should havs been Inclined to think tha whole thing an illusion, and ' that I had merely . dreamed of the priest's visit. - I resigned my post at Seville, for I wanted a . frea -hand, and my salary was not worth considering beside the prospeot of that .vast wealth.. ! went to Granada, for though X had given up hope of ever finding . the . priest I thought there might be among his pa pers soma elus to the position of the mine, snd I had devised a schema for getting Into hla room. . Going to tne landlord : of "the - house, ' I aaked Jf I could have lodgings thsrs; aa ex pected, hs told me ths place was full. ' "Hut why shouldn't X have Don VI vente's room?" I aaked. : "He must be dead or gone to the devil. - You're not golng'to keep it empty forever.' -The landlord -was - willing . enough to let It, but somewhat feared difficulties with tha police if Don Vicente's belongings were tampered with. .. .-. " "Don't be a fool.' - said I. 'No ons will troyble about you. Don Vicentes WATERMARKS ON PAPER. Watermarks have proved themselves Invaluable for safeguarding against ths forgery of banknotes, bills, stamps, etc, though the difficulty experienced by the Bank of England in evolving a mark defying Imitation waa-very great snd wss accompanied by tha ' execution of forgeries Innumerable. Many a will haa been set aside ow ing to falsa dates In watermarks, for, thanks to ' watermarks, w a re under no uncertainty respecting tha data of ths existence of. tha paper. Ireland's cele brated Shakespearian forgeries were, however, perpetrated with skillful rec ognition of tha watermark difficulty.- At first aays the Ixmdon Globe, he Waa unacquainted with any ' watermark of Ellsabethan tlmea, so hs carefully se lected msrklesS 'sheets forThiS com mencing efforts..! ' Driven . to the production of ' manu script hs set to work purchasing old volumes for their fly leaves, and- hear ing that the "Jug" was the prevalent watermark of the reign of Queen Elisa beth, ha selected' such as had ths "jug" on, being careful to mingle with them a certain' number of blank leaves. In order that the production on a sudden of so msny Identical watermarks might not arouse suspicion. "Two'bf ths earliest-watermarks con stat of a circle surmounted by a cross signifying the cross planted on earth, and sn open hand surmounted by a star or cross,1 representing the pastoral ben ediction of a priest "Poet" paper takes its name from the poet horn, which mark was tn use as early as-1170. - It somettmea appears on a shield, and In tba seventeenth century Is surmounted I . ' . property -' can - remain' where It la. I li ever ne returns he can have It' To quiet hla fears, tha landlord asked an outrageous rent but I sgreed to It gladly and within an hour a locksmith had gained 'me admission to tha-room. It. waa acantUy- f urwiahed - wit h- a bed, a chair -and a-table; round tba walls books and papers were piled up, dusty and untidy. -1 looked at the books eag erly and found they constated In part of devotional works, but ths most were technical traatlaea , on -mining. First I examined carefully all tha papers with which tha, floor waa lltterd, and you can Imagine how my heart beat I can sea It now, that cold, rauaty room, and myself feverishly turning - over each scrap of paper tn tha hope of finding soms ciue. - nothing, i took ths books ons by one and sought for a stray sheet on which might bs written tha name of a place or a map. . Nothing. . I -scrutinised tha hoards of tha floor and the wails Sot signs of an opening in- which the secret, might be hidden. Nothing. My brain reeled, and X thought If X did not" gather myself together I should go mad. Again 1 sxamlned the books, this time for' their contents.' For days I worked ltks a. elave, with not a shadow of hope to encourage me. , "1 began to despair, but I would not listen to tha voles within ma I deter mined never to rest till I had dlsoov- aa ab surd. There it waa without doubt leas than fifteen miles from Granada, and setting my teeth I swore I would find If. At laat I sum across a little faded Spanleh- book,- all - worn - with-' age and discolored, thumbed and dirty. It waa an account written la the seventeenth century -of the mlnea exploited by the Romans In Andalusia. My heart leaped; for here, evidently, was the source from .which ths priest himself had proceeded. and I studied the shabby .vol urns as I never stuniea printed . matter before. Here ! foiindt-the flrat trace of his writ ing, for now and then the name of a place waa. lightly underlined. I made a careful note of all these, and deter mined to explore them one by one. I would go to work as the priest had done, and If I went In-his footsteps surely I should arrive at tha same re sult Then my heart gave a great bound. for I realised that now the mine would belong to me-alone, and I need' share my-wealth with no one. "It seemed ta ma that I was on the by a ducal coronet 'in which form it Is still met - with -. on - our - ordinary note paper. ',;..- . The watermark of "demy" paper has ever been the fleur de Us, the peculiar cognisance or tne house or Burgundy, who were patrons' of tha' Bordeaux ln duatry. In course of time the manu facture of paper became centered In the low countries, and the - excellence ' of Dutch paper. Its purity snd durability havs never' been' excelled. The' papers manufactured In tha Dutch mills have a great "variety ot -"watermarks." snd many of tltenr. were the badges of the noble families who had founded mills elsewhere. Thus the P. and some times separate and sometimes conjoined, are the Initials of Philip ths Good, Duke of Burgundy, 141 to 17, and Ysanella, his wife. . . ! ' The - ox's head was another ancient watermark on which Caxton and-Faust printed eome of' thetr books, but Cax ton used a watermark In the form of tha letter P for. ths. "Game and Plays of tha Cheese," first printed In 1474. - Tha first edition of Shakeaneare. printed by Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount In 12I, will, however, be found to be mostly on . paper- bearing a cap like a Jockey's ss a watermark; and the general uae of the . term "cap" to various modern papers owes it to marks of this kind. ... The "-first " Engllah paper-maker was John Tate, who founded a mill at Hert ford at the close of thb fifteenth cen tury. Tats made a fine thin psper, hav ing for a watermark an eight-pointed star within ' a' double circle. White coarse paper was made by Sir John Spellmen,- a- Germs n,- at - Dertford,-ln lose, ana nere tne nrst English paper on a large acaie .were erected. scent at last,' and It was -with a light heart I set out next morning." Tha speaker - stopped and laughed bitterly. Hs called for more liquor and drank it at one gulp. . ; t "It was tha first of many fruitless journeys among that mountains of Gran ada, and that light heart of mlna grew -so heavy, that I could scarcely bear tha weight of It In my body. For three years -1 - wandered about these desert -places, suffering hunger and cold and thirst. . I explored every Inch of the country; I found disused mines, but they . were worthies. I aaked every one I '. met whether they remembered an old. tall -priest who used- to -come often to -those-- parts; - but - never. Jld I meet a soul who had seen him. He hsd van ished from tha face of tha earth, and even the remembrance of him waa gone. They thought me mad, but I did not care; I went on and on, perpetually look- , Ing for my gold." " "; .'. . "And you never found anythlngT" I asked. - He paused tor a long while before ha anawered. "Yes, at last" One day X was walking through the most desert pert of the Sierra, where I think no man' had aver been before, and I waa wishing with all my soul that I'd never set eyes on that cursed priest: It waa bitterly cold, and auddenly ths snow began to fall. I ' looked . about for shelter, . and saw tha opening of a little cava behind soma brushwood. J pushed my way through and thought myself lucky to get -Into a fairly comfortable placa I atruck a match to light my -cigar and . then I : cried out with horror.- I really felt as though-my .hair stood on end, and I trembled In all my llmba Tha match fell from my fingers, and with shaking. v.. J w another. Hnmethlnar macs was lying at my- feet, something ghaat ly. . I touched It .The blaek cassock of a prleat I'd found Don Vicente at last . Shriveled Ilka a mummy, a skele- ton of skin snd bone, but recognisable' sttll.- ha lay there at my feet, with his secret locked eternally In his b reset." A ahudder paaaed through tha man aa he thought of that awful sight For a while he was silent . "I suppose he ' had been there for , three years or more. He must have gone to that place Immediately after I -saw him. Death cams upon him sud denly." . . .' . " "But .surely his presence . there" ; X began. ; ' ' "I thought - It meant," something, I sought again. I sought restlessly. I never tired. I travereed every Inoh of the land for ten mllea around, till my youth, waa gone and my hair turned gray. I never, found anything never I And still there lies within five leaguea -of. Granada a mine rich with gold, wait ing to make some lucky fool the richest man In Europe." .. , . v Till 10, however, when, William XIX .' passed an act to encourage the horns ' manufacture of white paper, all tha best , psper for writing and printing was lm- , ported from Holland and Franca, ' A story goes that tha most curious of al) watermarks, a fool's cap, which is-., derived from tha Italian "fogllo-cappo," . . a folio slsed sheet wss ordered by tha Rump, parliament to be substituted for the royal arms tn ths paper used for tha. Journals of ths house of commons. . , -As -a matter Ttr fact" ho paper so " marked fpund Its way Into England be- -fore 169, and the story probably owes . Its origin to ths topical allusions which ths royalists contrived to perpetuate in the case of papers Introduced from Hoi- ' land during the Cromwelllan , regime. ' For example. In If 4t a largo har ta denote the broad-brimmed. bearer-wora . by the Puritans; in If SI, four crowns, snd In IfST, a regal crown all symbols likely to be - obnoxious to ths ruling powers were exhibited oa many papers. ' ': Discharged for Oaeuee. - . "I see they've discharged that clerk who saved ao much money out of hla . smalt salary. - Didn't they know ha was grafting all the timer' . - f , V . "Yea, but they suspect now that he got some of the graft that rightfully belong-etl to ths bigger officers af tha c0m - pany."J -v ... ...l: ' :-- . W 1 T , "I am afraid, madam,! said a gentle - i man who was looking for country lodg tnga. , "that ths Jiouse Is too near the. station to . be pleasant." .- . , ' "It la a little noisy." assented . tha landlady, "but from the front veranda one has such a fins flew of people teha -miss ths trains.". . . , - i
