9. THE RICH WOMAN
THERE was a gentleman in New York who sold mining stock. The stock was beautiful, being printed in four colours, but the mines were as bad as black and white could describe them. He came to the Territories, as one of her annual guests, and as he was well supplied with letters of introduction, this Mr. Liberbaum was well received. He was a nice man with an extensive range of superlatives, and since he was agreeable to his hosts they bore him no grudge, even when, as they discovered three months later, he applied for and received a government concession to dredge the river, for gold.
"Gold!" smiled Sanders. "The only gold in the river is my unfortunate cigarette—case— and that would not be there if Bones had not been such a goop."
Bones was so interested by the informati
