Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-06-28

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On the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth
evenings the same story. The bank
ers began to know the man, anC
amused themselves about his strang'
behavior. AS usual he lost, tool
up the bag, and walked away.
The seventh evening arrived. l
was just minute after eight, an(
one of the bankers said laughingly t(
| the other:- "We have treated hin
too hardly and frightened him away.
His comrade laughed; but the mar
in the black coatwho bad just arrived
without altering feature or paying
ANY attention to the whispering
and laughing, took bis usual place
quietly, and watched the progress o.
the game till quarter past eight,
and then laid the we'll known bag
upon deuce that had just been
turned up.
A couple of cards bad been turned
up without the two making its ap-
pearance. At last, the thee fell. to
left and to the right-a scarcely per-
ceptible smile played on the banker S
lip p--the two. The stranger turned
deadly pale, but without uttering a
syllable about-the change in his luck.
he stretched out his hand to the sack,
and was on the point of opening it
in order to count the dollars, when
the banker said laughingly:-"Let
it be, know how many are in it
eight and twenty. Am | not right
"Not otexactly!" said the man calmly,
and shook the silver out On the table.
He then shook the bag still more,
and a roll of bank notes slightly wrap
ped together fell out.
"What's that?" the banker cried
in alarm, and the audience pressed Gu
riously around. -
"luy stake" the man said with
apparent indifference.as he untastened
the thread that bound the notes.
"Stop! that will not do!' the banker
cried as he threw down his cards;
"that's false play. You only paid
twenty-eight dollars on the previous
evening"
"False play?'' the man shouted,
and his eye brows we're menacingly
contracted. "Prove it, you shutters!
Did | not lay the bag just as it is on
the card, and have you ever refused to
pay it unopened?'
"No! that's all correct--quite right" !"
said those around, who are always
glad to oppose tie banker, because
they are firmly convinced that he
does not play fairly, although they
continually throw away their money.
Gle staked and won, and must be
paid Others shouted.
"Count your money; how much is
it," said the banker who had hurriedly
exchanged a few words with bis con-
federates seated opposite, "how much
is it,
"In the first place, twenty-eight
dollars in silver, he said calmly, while
the bystanders laughed heartily,
'then, in bank notes, two, three, four,
yes, eight hundred dollars, and
then"
"a small bill on Goldsmith & Broth
ers, as good as silver, accepted and all;
the money need only be tetched-for
three thousand"
"Ihree thousand!'' the banker
yelled, starting from his chair. "Why,
that would make nearly four thousand
dollars altogether! Are you mad2-
Do you expect me to pay all that?' /.
SDon'tI?" the stranger asked In sur
prise" "Would you not have taken
it if Ihad lost?" s
"0f course he would-of course.
Do you ask whether they would take
it? Everything they can get, and a
little more, toe," shouted the voices
around the table. "He must pay"
"Gentlenlen!p the banker protest
ed in the poor prospect OF turn
ing their hearts. "GentlemeG, this
person staked everyevening through
out the entire week"
@And lost every time" another in
terrupted him. Il have been pres
ent several times, and have heard so
from others, and he never made the
slightest objection"
'But that was only eight and twen-
ty dollars
9And if it had been SO many thou
sands, all the same
"But do let me finish," the banker
shrieked, with aspen lips and furious