CHAPTER SIXTH.
The Spectator and Extortioner.
Mr.Jacob Swartz was sitting in the back room of his store on Main street counting a heap of gold and silver coins which lay on a table before him.

He was a small, thin-bodied man, with little gray eyes, light hair and aquiline nose.

He was of that nationality generally known in this country as "Dutch;" but having been there for over twenty years, he had become naturalized, and was now a citizen of the chivalrous States of Mississippi, a fact of which he prided himself considerably.
Mr.Swartz was busily engaged counting his money, when a little boy, who seemed, from a similarity of features, to be his son appeared at the door, and mentioned that Mr.Elder desired to see him.
"Vot can he vant ?" said Mr.Swartz.Then as if recollecting, he continued: "I suppose it is apout that little shtore he vants to rent me.

Tell him to come in." The boy withdrew, and a few seconds after a tall and scrupulously dressed gentleman, with his coat buttoned up to the throat, and wearing a broad rimmed hat, entered the room.

This was Mr.James Elder, a citizen of Jackson, but not a native of the State.