"And isn't that news ?" "The best that could be, and the hardest to believe," said Battersleigh.
"Where'd you get thim, and how ?" "By diplomacy," said Franklin.

"Morrison, one of the transit men of the engineers, was home in Missouri for a visit, and yesterday he came back and brought a sack of apples with him.

He was so careless that he let the secret out, and in less than half an hour he had lost two thirds of his sack of apples--the boys wheedled them out of him, or stole them.

At last he put the bag, with what was left of the apples, in the safe at the hotel, and left orders that no one should have even a look at them.

I went out and sent a man in to tell the clerk that he was wanted at the depot, and while he was away I looted the safe--it wasn't locked--and ran for it.