"You're the boy! But what's the good of running anything off the plate before turning it over to 'em--the stuff's no good to us." "You got a wooden nut, with sawdust for brains," said Malone sarcastically.

"If he'd thought the gang of counterfeiters that was supposed to have bought the plate from him had run off only one fiver and then stopped because they say it wouldn't get by, and weren't going to run any more, and just destroy the plate like it was supposed to have been destroyed to begin with, and it all end up with no one the wiser, where d'ye think we'd have banked that fifteen thousand! I told him I had the whole run confiscated, and that the queer went with the plate, so we'll just make that little run to-night--that's why I sent word around to you this morning." "By the jumping!" ejaculated Whitie Burns, heavy with admiration.

"You got a head on you, Cap!" "It's a good thing for some of you that I have," returned Malone complacently.

"But don't stand jawing all night.

Go on, now--get busy!" There was no surprise in Jimmie Dale's face--he had chosen his position behind a pile of cases that he had been extremely careful, as a man is careful when his life hangs in the balance, to assure himself were empty.