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OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE
WRECKED BRIG "FLYING SCUD"

APPLYING,
PERSONALLY OR BY LETTER,
AT THE OFFICE OF JAMES PINKERTON, MONTANA BLOCK,
BEFORE NOON TO-MORROW, TUESDAY, 12TH,
WILL RECEIVE

TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.
"This is your idea, Pinkerton!" I cried.
"Yes. They've lost no time; I'll say that for them--
not like the Fraud," said he. "But mind you, Loudon,
that's not half of it. The cream of the idea's here:
we know our man's sick; well, a copy of that has been
mailed to every hospital, every doctor, and every drug-
store in San Francisco."
Of course, from the nature of our business, Pinkerton
could do a thing of the kind at a figure extremely
reduced; for all that, I was appalled at the
extravagance, and said so.
"What matter a few dollars now?" he replied sadly;
"it's in three months that the pull comes, Loudon."
We walked on again in silence, not without a shiver.


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