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Mr. Slosher turned and smiled. "Hello, Mr. Gamble!" he greeted him, while Mrs. Slosher gave him a bright and cheery little nod. "I played old-fashioned army poker with Colonel Bouncer and Ben Courtney and Mort Washer and Joe Close last night and the old robbers skinned me out of thirty-two dollars. They spoke of you during the game and I guess you could get backing to any amount in that crowd."
"It's a bargain," he agreed, and pretty little Mrs. Slosher nodded her head vehemently with innocent joy. Gresham passed them by and tipped his hat to Mrs. Slosher, including Mr. Slosher in the greeting. A pleasant idea struck Johnny. "You scarcely intend to build your colored apartment-house under your own name?" he suggested. "Indeed, no!" laughed Mrs. Slosher happily.
Slosher smiled. "That is all, I believe," he announced as he assisted Mrs. Slosher to her feet with that punctilious gallantry which defies a younger man to do it better. At four o'clock Jim Guff called Mr. Gamble on the telephone. "Hello, Gamble!" he hailed in an entirely new voice. "You're a robber!" "You flatter me," returned Johnny quite comfortably.
"I think I know your man," stated Gamble with pleasant anticipation. "I'll tell you about him if you'll be careful not to let him or anybody else know that I recommended him." "I can figure out sufficient reasons for that," replied Slosher. "Is he reliable?" "He can give you security and I suppose you had better exact it," advised Johnny.
On the 20th we reach Rocky Thomas's justly celebrated station at 5 in the morning, and have a breakfast of hashed black-tailed deer, antelope steaks, ham, boiled bear, honey, eggs, coffee, tea, and cream. That was the squarest meal on the road except at Weber. Mr. Thomas is a Baltimore "slosher," he informed me.
"He is the man who first secured the option from Miss Purry." "What is his name?" "Collaton," and Johnny gazed serenely after Gresham. "I'll send for him in the morning," decided Mr. Slosher.
Slosher. It was a written offer from the De Luxe Apartments Company for three hundred thousand dollars. "That makes my offer, then at five per cent, advance three hundred and fifteen thousand," figured Slosher. "Is that a bargain?" Johnny, glancing contentedly about the big inclosure, saw Jim Guff waiting impatiently for a chance to speak with him.
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