"You don't know any one in the Big Burgh, do you?
Thought not.

Without there! Ho, varlet!" He thumped on the table, demanding writing materials.

"I'll fix you out.

Give you a letter to a firm of mining experts I'm in touch with." After an interval devoted to refreshments, the Judge read with all the pride of authorship: Messrs.

Atwood, Strange & Atwood, 25 Broad Street, New York City.
_Gentlemen_: This will introduce to you Mr.Stephen Thompson, of Dundee, New Mexico.