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Show COL GREEN'S SPORTY OFFER How the Good Natured Financier Got the Beat of the Confidence Confi-dence Man. Juat because Col. E. II. R. Green Is fat and looks good natured, and bas a sort of out-of door air, some of the sharpers In New York had htm sited up as easy when he first returned from Tixss to take care of the properties of hls'other"; Mrs. Hetty Oreen. writ" " " -a correspondent. It may be, too, thai the colonel's breety candor kind of coaxed the boys along a bit We will talk on any subject when be feels like talking, with a frankness unusual In the banking fraternity. "Here's my old friend, Mr. I links," said the colonel the other night, at bis hotel, grabbing at a well dressed man, who was walking walk-ing by without speaking. His old friend, Mr. Winks, shrunk Into himself and was obviously erabarraaaed. After a moment's talk he got away, and the colonel's well padded sides shook. "Hlnka Is one or 'em," said he. "I'd Just landed In town wb Wluks came up to me one night In the hotel. He had met me In Texas, be said. So-and-so had Introduced him. I didn't remember him, but the name he mentioned men-tioned was that of a good friend of mine, and I thought maybe my memory mem-ory was at fault. Ky and by be opened the trap. He told me of the good thing be had under cover, and that I could make a million dollars If I'd Juat put In a few thousands. It was a gold mine, and he had the gaudiest maps and proapertuaes I have ever seen. I listened to blra until un-til be got through. 'Hlnka,' said I. 'Juat between friends, I've got a gold mine of my own that I want to sell. Now, I won't buy a mine, but I'll tell you what I'll do. III draw carda with you, the winner take both. That's all either la fit for."' Colonel Green got another good laugh out of It 'There's a free niaaonry among theae fellows, I think," aaid be "No one bas offered me a gold mine since." |