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"What is it quick?" he added, and his words were like a sharp grip upon Dan Welldon's shoulder. "Racing cards?" Dan nodded. "Yes, over at Askatoon; five hundred on Jibway, the favourite he fell at the last fence; five hundred at poker with Nick Fison; and a thousand in land speculation at Edmonton, on margin. Everything went wrong." "And so you put your hand in the railway company's money-chest?"
"It seemed such a dead certainty Jibway; and the Edmonton corner-blocks, too. I'd had luck with Nick before; but well, there it is, Flood." "They know the railway people Shaughnessy knows?" "Yes, the president knows. He's at Calgary now. They telegraphed him, and he wired to give me till midnight to pay up or go to jail. They're watching me now. I can't stir.
"It seemed such a dead certainty Jibway; and the Edmonton corner-blocks, too. I'd had luck with Nick before; but well, there it is, Flood." "They know the railway people Shaughnessy knows?" "Yes, the president knows. He's at Calgary now. They telegraphed him, and he wired to give me till midnight to pay up, or go to jail. They're watching me now. I can't stir.
"What is it quick?" he added, and his words were like a sharp grip upon Dan Welldon's shoulder. "Racing? cards?" Dan nodded. "Yes, over at Askatoon; five hundred on Jibway, the favorite he fell at the last fence; five hundred at poker with Nick Fison; and a thousand in land speculation at Edmonton, on margin. Everything went wrong." "And so you put your hand in the railway company's money-chest?"
"What is it quick?" he added, and his words were like a sharp grip upon Dan Welldon's shoulder. "Racing cards?" Dan nodded. "Yes, over at Askatoon; five hundred on Jibway, the favourite he fell at the last fence; five hundred at poker with Nick Fison; and a thousand in land speculation at Edmonton, on margin. Everything went wrong." "And so you put your hand in the railway company's money-chest?"
"It seemed such a dead certainty Jibway; and the Edmonton corner-blocks, too. I'd had luck with Nick before; but well, there it is, Flood." "They know the railway people Shaughnessy knows?" "Yes, the president knows. He's at Calgary now. They telegraphed him, and he wired to give me till midnight to pay up, or go to jail. They're watching me now. I can't stir.
"As fur as I kin make out, major, Mahng, the fellow you laid out so neatly awhile ago, is a Jibway, while Songa is an Ottaway, and son of the head chief, or medicine man, of the Metai, a magic circle of great influence among the lake tribes. Not long ago both Songa and Mahng courted a young Jibway squaw, who was said to be the handsomest gal of her tribe.
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