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EDITORIAL
•••til tu:?tiry
(rip. but of
: ■; of lower living
4 r «.•' ••von if tliey
j stuvtUimr.
- nf-I'ansii who are
% . 'V are acting
if }Hipn!:ir mas-.
litt!«* that u nickel
■ ro '< i lays.
' i>n;>or sn-oord- '
•;r roast and
!« s-n!; 2 to ilrfv«
■ hiiMiie** !t Is to
,.<r ..f btvart.
wewr the r» i son for the In- f
;:i t! * -!. •■ .-f n nt of milk j
r.o «—c t> :i hungry batty. !
,• ;.. ; ! • . Vo.'n the mm- i
froo frosn nmfl- ^
J.-vatssf tlir |«»te will be;
—
ITmvo v t '• l t' !f r.o one Is i
a* :.i» '"tKr years
' „* • t ii •;» at in hot
nr an ^nto
u !»♦» Iff: frt
he
civ r hp
■it n«a
nnv henrr r ■ live unpaid
it,:. -,.- . U>:i:is would havi»
•Jwi ili.-Ta ti.oir bonus.
If the p» •' " on ts»1'<ln« j
c,. ; - • I - v something
. ■ in w..u!U not
miss the ui:>'c so imirh.
■ :
, ,> ; j without changing
cost* to C>v -utr.'-rs !s or.e of the fine ,
p.:: ;« of ti.e "in* de game.*
AVIfh p :-.'.r down to 15 cent*, the
ponj.lo wl s' 1 up heavliy at .'>0
tvnts will see f'.-.rtber evidence of the
laji:-tlce of thl: g« In general.
With Europe seething n« It K the I
tourist of tbe day :.'::~t he MtnetbltilC
of a hero as well. At least, he will ■
he booked for n lively tltue. |
Finding the tit:.''of the original I
May Sower i< or.e of the brightest j
stunts tV.» t. •••entenary celebration
otlicials have pulled thus far.
A irian h:>« brought suit on the i
ground t-':it bottle of hair tonic j
rnns.-il his It: ' to swell. DU1 he ap- i
ply it ex ertialiy or Internally?
It will be no • o-.isolation to a freez- 1
Ing family or :i -Tirken industry to
know r..-\r wint.-r that there ts an
abuudatKv ui° >• -a! at the mines.
If it 1 •• Syr :t <• -rom to pny
K1,(W> for a v.;-V S>riii!: i-usrom (
lw.';< n* if it ought to be pretty ef- j
fetlivc in Bellas Usffl'B Ingutui'.
E MOON
lLE ofthefiai
rOODS
DAVID ANDEBSON
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">0," lie answered, nanaing nncs
the lens. "Xelther do you."
It was a straight thrust. The buyer
"Veil, How Much You Want It?"
flushed and studied his man. Who
was this I'earlhunter. anyhow?
"Veil, how much you want It?"
"I told you."
The Jew ridiculed the idea with his
hands.
"I t'ought you tr.uke me some fool
ishness. You doiid't can meant It?"
"You've c°t a good chance to find
out."
The Jew stooped again over the
pearl, rolled it ahoilt upon the plush
cushion ins: :«■ the tiny Jewel case, took
a small pair of calipers from his vest
pocket and measured it. not only to
dermis i e its - : hut its roundness as
well. The ■>!•! banker looked across
the tahle and winked at the Pearl
hunter—a v»-'-v ill-rinct and unmistak
aMe wink. A dry grin puckered the
young man's eyes, it's not every pearl
ti.-her that sets •viuk- 1 at by a banker.
Solomon looked up after a while
and growled:
"I srifT you t'ree t'ousnn'."
The hunkor started. Hut the I'earl
hunter said
. "If it Min t worth more than that. T
might its v.ell down to Mud Haul
and tish for 'Pliemls."
I.ouie S"!o.i ..ii swore—n stliT little
run of what t!:»• I !at woods calls "keen
ftfjs'n'." His eyes stuck out; he
storniiil haek : t •' forth across the
!l«H»r a time or iu ' mtterlng to him
self in Yld' Nli. a language In which
he doiihtir-- . . nmre comfortably,
it was the r.iir.el" whisky. I.ouie
ki!« «v better, too.
ltut the tempt si «as soon over. He
stopped at the eorner of the table, his
face smoothed Seie'tr us a garden—
like a gtinleM ■ I •* better for the
Htr. m.
"l.oiiie. I tiiiinv tltm* say to mine
.-pit. I.< u e. ynu got it toil much big
hiiirrtil to ho a pearl buyer yet. Too
uiiicti sufr-heartcJ ynu got it. Hard
hearted a |>earl buyor should he. You
trifT too hiirh. umlt you sell too low.
Misses Solomon, she die In d'e poor
house yot. hain'dt it? I giff you four
t'ojisan'."
The Pearlhunter glanced across the
table at the hanker.
"1 reckon you might as well put ll
hack in the safe," lie said. "He knows
my price, and he don't seem to want
to do business."
The banker picked" up the little
plush ca-e. snapped the lid down, and
started for the door. Taking the pearl
from the room was like putting the
light out. The Jew's face was a study,
lie drew his sleeve across his brow.
"ttring it back." he cried. "Hlmmel!
You pearl fishers Iss all crazy. I giff
It de five t'ousanV*
CHAPTER VII.
The Face in the Draft
The banker brought back the plush
case and set it down on the table. The
Jew took out his check book and be
gan to write.
The ivarlhunter never could re
member the thoughts that came over
him at that high moment of his life.
For all he could recall, there were no
clear thoughts at all—just a loosening
of the throat: a relaxing of the
muscles, ns If he had dropped a load
under which he had been straining.
He didn't know It. but the old banker
was watching him. The old, embar
rassing question—what name to write
in the check—brought him back out
of the haze. He noticed that the
Jew's hand trembled as he wrote. It
was nn odd trifle to notice, but It was
the one thing ho could afterward
clearly recall.
The check, made out to "Pearlhunt
* er," wns In his Angers I Five thou
sand dollars—In words, and big plain
figures! It was the first check he had
: ever owned—the first one he had ever
seen. lie was still reading It, puz
zling over It. when the banker grasped
1 his hand. The banker shaking hands
: with him! This was his day!
"May I have the money on this?"
1 "Why. my dear boy," the hanker an
swered, laughing, and slapping him on
the shoulder, "there Isn't that much
cash In the hank."
That was a new one on the Pearl
hunter. He had supposed a bank had
In lis vaults unlimited loads of money.
"What will I do?"
"You can draw part of It, and de
posit the rest to your credit."
AH of which was a foreign language
to the fVarHiunter.
"I didn't want to use any of the
money," lie finally managed to say. "I
don't expect to spend a cent of It for
—you know—small matters. I expect
to leave it right here till I can spend
It for something—well—big. I Just
wanted to show It to a—friend."
"You might show your—friend the
check." The hanker stole a glance at
Solomon gloating openly over the gem,
now that the deal was closed. "No,"
he continued, "there's a better"—
safer, he was about to sny, but didn't
—"way than that. Why not deposit
the check and take out a draft?"
"Draft? What's that?"
TIip old banker reached his fingers
up through his hair and studied the
man before him. Sirtint^down at his
desk, he wrote rapidly for a moment.
, "This is a draft." he said, landing
over the slip lie had been writing on
and taking the check In exchange. "It
is as good as gold anywhere, at any
hank, any time. Show it to your
friend, nnd I suggest that yon after
ward bring it hack to the hank and
deposit It. I will then give you a
check book and show you bow to use
It."
The FVarthunter rend the paper
over with curious Interest, put It In
the big. formidable envelope Ilie bank
er pave til in for tlie purpose, and hut
tone<l it awny In an Inside pocket of
his blouse.
The little .lew had by this time put
the Blue Mo. 11 back in the plush rase,
put the ease in his vest pocket, and
pinned «:;> the pocket.
"Illmmel!" he grunted, tuniins
away fiotn the table. "You p^arl Ush
ers Is* all orcv.y. I'd gilT it to you n
t'ousan' more."
"I cot my price."
•Twit dot's more as anybody pot It
yet from Louie Solomon."
lie chuckled all the way to the door.
A small crowd waited outside. No
body knows how news leaks out in a
small towii. Not n man but knew how
much the pe- :•! hml brought. One of
the crowd a lanky one-eyed Usher
man. sidled up to the I'oarlhunter.
"Y'u It. drdn'i y'n?"
The iVarlhunicr was too slow, and
the little Jew answered for him.
"Course hi' sot it. What chance a
pore devil pearl buyer cot mlt d'e
whole town against "lin !"
Tliat statement. or one like It. was
what the crowd had been waitlnc for.
Tin' tension was over. The Undine and
selling of the famous com. the most
valuable pearl ever "li'lsted" along the
Wal.ash, was now hi-M>:y—Flatwoods
history. The one-eyed lishernian
chucked his hat up in the air and
veiled—a lusty cheer. In which the
crowd joined. One would have thnucht
that earh mail there had sold a Blue
Moon—or found one.
The I'earlhuntcr felt a good ileal as
the crowd seemed to feel—a loosening
of the tension. For that matter, the
fat little buyer seemed to feel some
thing of the same relief. Caught up In
the crowd, both buyer anil seller were
swept across the road and into the ex
pectant door of the Mud lien.
The Pearlliunter hud just twenty-five
dollars and twenty-seven cents in his
pocket. He had counted It that morn- '
ing while waiting for I.ouie Solomon to I
come. It was the last cent after pay
ing his mover's funeral expenses. He
threw a pocket-worn twenty-dollar bill
on the bar and motioned to the crowd.
"Make it good whisky," he said. "No
•squirrel' goes this round."
He couldn't have made a better
speech for the occasion. The crowd
cheered. The little Jew said some
thing, but It couldn't be heard. The
bartender set out a long row of glasses.
The river men grew suddenly quiet
with the gurgle of the filling.
Each man picked up a glass and
stood waiting until every other man
was* served. The crowd was too occu
pied to notice it, but the Pearlhunter's
knees were fairly shaking under hiin;
his face set and pale. He was about
to do the hardest thing he had ever
tackled in his life, even harder than1
"Make It Good Whisky," He Said.
mentioning money to the Wild Rose.
He picked up his glass; set It down—
pushed It back.
"Water for mine!"
To a man, the crowd whirled nnd
stared. Louie Solomon swore.
"Vot Iss!" he said. "You make It
foolishness?"
"No," was the slow answer. "I'm
off this for keeps."
"II—II" growled the one-eyed fisher
man. "Since't when did y'u quit?"
"Ycsterday—about sundown."
lie raised his glass nnd clinked with
Louie Solomon—the aristocratic bour
bon against the Flatwoods spring—and
drank the celebration of bis great day
In a glass of water. The others were
too busy Just then, or cared too little,
to press the point, or take the trouble
to wonder Just what and what all he
meant by "yesterday—about sundown."
Lonle Solomon 'set his glass down
with a bang.
"Himmel! Dot don'dt shtrnck bot
tom yet. It vas nil soaked up In mine
throat n-ready. Pill "tin up ag'ln, all
hands roumit. Undt 61s one Iss on
Louie.
"Where Iss mine frlendt vot trim
from me twenty-t'ree dollar?" Louie
asked, feeling his vest pocket, as he
had done probably a score of times
since crossing the street.
"Oh, he went up the Yellow branch
this afternoon to look at some timber
options." the bartender answered.
"Toll 'lm mebbe he come by d'e camp
t'nlght undt glff me chance to git It
back my twenty-t'ree dollar."
"I'll tell him when he comes In."
The bartender wiped oft the bar. The
Pearlhunter was already out on the
sidewalk, where the Jew soon joined
him, and they walked together down to
the white skiff. The three rowers were
still In their places? glum as their em
ployer was voluble.
It was well toward evening wIicd
they pulled up to the landing at which
the houseboat lay. Louie gave careful
directions where to build the fire, and
followed the Pearlhunter up through
the underbrush beyond the strip of
open shore, and to the calHn, tapping,
every few steps, the pocket where the
pearl lay. He went straight to the
spring.
"You should eat supper rolt me,
hnln'dt It?" he said, the dripping
gourd poised in his hand.
"Sure. Put I'm not much on that—
friend—of yours. 1 think I'll leave be
fore he comes."
The Pearlhunter had for some lime
been debating with himself whether
or not to warn Solomon of the danger
ous character of the mail that was com
ing. The one consideration iliat kept
him from speaking was the fact that
he had no pi certain knowledge,
but no proof. He decided not to speak
—yet.
"You no like him?" The Jew
laughed easily, bung I he gourd hack
mi the stick and stood looking out over
the landscape spreading away under
the genial sunshine.
"Jl'ot you do now?"
The question caught the Pearlhunter
unawares. He. too, was gazing out
over ihe landscape, hut absorbed In
things of which the placid little Jew
had not the remotest inkling.
"I hardly know," he answered slow-1
ly, as If feeling for each word.
"Thought maybe I'd go to school." |
"School 1" The Jew ridiculed the !
word with his hands. "I know a-ready j
men could be professors, undt dey got
not'ing. I go by school not more as
two weeks for mine life, undt look at
me."
The Pearlhunter did look at him—
hard-faced, red-nosed, yellowish teeth,
a potty protuberance swung to the
front of his waistline. It looked like
two weeks wasted.
"Why you don't buy timber? Tou
can shoot it dis waterfall Into a flume
undt run a mill yet." * -
The Pearlhunter made no answer.
The little Jew talked on.
"You can buy It d'e Flatwoods a
ready yet. if you handle right your
money." He walked back around the
end of the cabin. The Pearlhunter
followed. "Veil, you come 'long ven
you get ready, haln'dt it?"
He went on down the slope, through
the bushes toward Ills skiff; the Pearl
hunter turned in at the cabin door.
Alone at last, he did the very thing
that nine meu out of ten would have
done; took the draft out of his pocket
and fingered it over—the concrete and
tsnirlhta pviilpnro of n creflt d»iv won.
(Contlwiea on Tnejday)
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HEARING
In ho Court o£ the Commissioner
for the Territory of Alaska„
Division No, 1» befor® the Hon. J.
J. F. Ward< Ex—Offlco PrODate
Judte "l't'ng In Probate, at SkaS
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la lh« maiter of the E3tate or
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