![]() Philoprogenitiveness, 3 says we, is strong in semi-rural communities therefore, and for other reasons, a kidnapping project ought to do better there than in the radius of newspapers that send reporters out in plain clothes to stir up talk about such things. We talked it over on the front steps of the hotel. Bill and me had a joint capital of about six hundred dollars, and we needed just two thousand dollars more to pull off a fraudulent town-lot scheme in Western Illinois with. It contained inhabitants of as undeleterious 2 and self-satisfied a class of peasantry as ever clustered around a Maypole. There was a town down there, as flat as a flannel-cake, and called Summit, of course. It was, as Bill afterward expressed it, “during a moment of temporary mental apparition” 1 but we didn’t find that out till later. ![]() ![]() We were down South, in Alabama-Bill Driscoll and myself-when this kidnapping idea struck us. T looked like a good thing but wait till I tell you. ![]()
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