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Cappy smiled and nodded. J. O. Heyfuss & Co. were ship, freight and marine insurance brokers. "Something doing for my Mindoro," he soliloquized aloud. "Mr. Ricks?" a voice came over the wire. "Hello there!" Cappy replied at the top of his voice. For some reason he always shouted when telephoning. "Ricks on the job! Whatja got for my Mindoro, Heyfuss?... Zinc ore? Never carried any before.
"Out, thief!" he cried. "You can't sell us anything; so we don't want you hanging round this office. You might steal the safe or a roll-top desk, or something." Heyfuss departed, laughing good-naturedly, and Matt Peasley turned to confront Cappy Ricks. The latter had shrunk up in his chair and was looking as chopfallen and guilty as a dog caught sucking eggs.
You might look round and see whether you can line something up for us. I'd like about a two-thousand-ton boat; and we could charter her for a year." "There's only one vessel available," the man addressed as Heyfuss answered; "and that's the Tillicum. Cappy Ricks had her laid up in Oakland Creek " Matt moved away and approached a clerk at the desk.
"That dark-haired man with the thick glasses, talking with Mr. Heyfuss," he said "who is he?" "That is Mr. Henry Kelton, manager of G. H. Morrow Company," the clerk answered. "They operate a line of sailing vessels foreign and half a dozen steamers to South American ports."
She was built at Rangoon in 1790, of teak, and will last forever. Perhaps you saw her when she was exhibited at the Exposition last year. Might get her for you kind of cheap." "Nothing doing. Heyfuss, we want a steamer." "Sorry, but I haven't a thing in steamers. Just sold the last one I had ten minutes ago the Penelope." "The what!" Matt Peasley and Cappy cried in chorus. "The Penelope.
He had been a member less than a week when the wisdom of spending five hundred dollars for his membership was made delightfully apparent. While he stood watching the secretary chalk on the blackboard the record of the latest arrivals and departures, he heard a man behind him speaking: "Heyfuss, I'm in the market to charter another freighter for the Panama run.
Call up Heyfuss and declare that ore cargo off; after you've done that I'll tell you where you can get something better. Moreover, you can close the deal yourself and save the brokerage." Cappy Ricks called up J. O. Heyfuss and in a few terse sentences told that individual where to head in. "Now, then " he began, facing round on Redell once more. Again Redell's index finger tapped Cappy's knee.
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