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THE SPIRIT OF THE LINKS
many incidents that will interest and enliven him,
as did the four eminent British professionals who
some time since made a golfing expedition from
here in the winter-time in search of Mexican treasure
—dollars that were offered in open competition at
San Pedro. They told me a great tale of their
adventures on their return
,
and, as I have reason to
believe, a strictly accurate one. Andrew Kirkaldy,
Alexander Herd, Jack White
,
and Rowland Jones
were the treasure
-
hunters, and dashing fellows they
seemed as they boarded a special express at New
York. Having started thence at five minutes to
eleven one Wednesday morning
,
the train reached
St. Louis at r.3o on Thursday
,
having been much
delayed by a wreck on the Wabash in which fourteen
persons were killed and injured
.
This news added
greatly to the discomfort of the four British golfers.
They lunched at the Planters
'
Hotel, went round
the city, saw a performance at the theatre, and
boarded the train again at half-past eight in the
evening. Thereafter Messrs
.
Kirkaldy, Herd, White,
and Jones were brought to realise some of the
possibilities of travelling in through trains along the
American Continent. They were in the last car of
the train
,
and after the journey had been resumed
about half an hour
,
there was a negative kind of
happening in the form of a gradual slowing down
and then a final stop of the train
—
or rather, as it
proved, of the carriage
.
After waiting a little while
in patience the party put their heads out of the
window, and then they came to realise the horrible
truth. Their carriage had become uncoupled, and
the train had gone on and left them
!
Here was
a state of things! There was no other train to