Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine (1912) (14575110877)

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Title: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Subjects: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Publisher: (Baltimore, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation



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idthe other, shaking his head. Well, cried Jack, my vacationstarted today and I am my own masterfor two weeks. Can you suggest a singleadventurous way of spending that time? The other man sat in thought for aminute or so. You say that there are no adventuresin New York, he said at length. Iwill prove to you that there are. At this moment I have in an innerpocket a box containing the Esequieljewels. I dont suppose that you have ever heard of them, but I hey were the most famous gems in all Sout h America. THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE 33 I can not tell you how I came by them,except that they were given me as areward for services 1 rendered thepresident of a (Jentral American republic.They are honestly mine, but I couldntprove it in court. At any rate, there are people on my track who arc determinedto get these jewels away from me—andthey will stop at nothing. Tomorrowmorning 1 am leaving the city, in aneffort to escape them. But I am prettycertain that they will follow me.
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JACK LIKED THE PROSPECT OF ADVENTURE 34 THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE Now, if you mean what you sayabout wanting an adventure, I will takeyou with me as a sort of bodyguard.They are less likely to attempt violenceif I have someone constantly with me.The conditions of my offer are that youask no questions and implicitly obey myorders. Two weeks from tomorrow nightyou will be back in New York, and Iwill pay yo*u five hundred dollars for yourtrouble and risk. What do you say? Jack liked the mystery and the pros-pect of adventure, and the five hundreddollars would be very acceptable. But,on the other hand, it seemed more thanprobable that the fellow was a swindler,and that he might get into a very nastyfix by becoming involved with him.Like most honest citizens he was fearful,above everything else, of becoming en-tangled in the meshes of the law. Aftera moments thought he decided to refusethe offer. Im sorry, he began, but— Ah, you see that it is as I said,interrupted the oth