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You have increased the value of my property a thousandfold , I can not tell you how grateful I am '' -- and he , then and there , invited Hamar to luncheon . After luncheon Mr. B. made him a present of a cheque -- rather in excess of the sum which Hamar had all along intended to have , and could not have refrained from demanding much longer . In the afternoon all the San Francisco specials were full of the incident , and Hamar , seeing his name placarded for the first time , was so overcome that he spent the rest of the evening in the hotel deliberating how he could best turn his sudden notoriety to account . At ten o'clock Kelson came in , looking somewhat fatigued , but , nevertheless , pleased . He , too , had had adventures , and he detailed them with so much elaboration that the other two had frequently to tell him to `` dry up . '' `` I began the morning , '' he commenced , `` by accosting a very fashionably dressed lady coming out of Bushwell 's Store in Commercial Street . Divination at once told me she was the popular widow of J.K. Bater , the Biscuit King of Nob Hill , and that she was carrying in her big seal-skin muff a gold hatpin mounted with an emerald butterfly , a silver-backed hair brush , a blue enamelled scent bottle , and a porcelain jar , all of which she had slyly ` nicked , ' when no one was looking .