The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-07-08
took up die bag, and walked away.

Just minute after eigngi ana the Que
banker said laughingly to the other,
owe have treated him too hardly apd
frightened him away" His comrade
laughed, but the man in the black coat,
who had Just arrived, without altering
feature, orpaying any attention to the
] whispering and laughing, took his usual
place, quietly watched the progress OF
the game till a quarter past eight, and
then laid the well known bag upon a
deuce that had just been turned up.
A couple of cards had been turned up
without the two making its appearance.
AT last the three fell to the left and to
the tight, scarcely perceptible smile
played on the bakers lips-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 dol
lars, when the banker said laughingly,
.'Let it be; 1 know how many are in
is-eight and twenty. Am I not right ?''
"Not exactly !n said the man, calmly,
aud shook the silver out on the table
He then shook the bag still more, and
roll of bank notes, slightly wrapped to.
gether, fell out.
"What's that ?" the banker cried in
alarm, and the audience pressed Curl
ously round.
any stakel" the man said with appa-
rent indifference as he unfastened the
thread that bound the notes.
ltaaStop that will not do !" the banker
cried, as he threw down his cards, that's
false play. You only paid eight and
twenty dollars on the previous evenings" !"
"Falso playr' the man shouted, and
his eyebrows were menacingly contract
ed. Prove, it shufiersl Did not lay
the bag just as it is on the card, and
have you ever refused to pay it unopen-
ed ?n
"No that's all correct-quite right,
said those around, who are always glad
to oppose the banker, because they are
firmly convinced that he does not play
fairly although they continually throw.
away their money. "He staked and
won, and must be paid" others shout
ed. c
"Count your money; how much is
it?" said the banker, who had hurriedly
exchanged few words with lis confed
crates seated opposite; chow much is
it ?n
'.In the first place, twenty-eight dol.
lars in silver" he said calmly, while
the by ISLANDERS laughed heartily. Then,
here in bank notes; two, three, four, yes
eight hundred dollars; and then"
'sWhat more ?'
"A small bill on Goldsmith Brothers,
as good as silver, accepted and all the
money need only be fetehed-for-three
thousand.
"Three thousand !" the banker yelled,
starting from his chair. "Why, that
would make nearly four thousand dol
lars altogether !? Are you mad Do
you expect me to pay all that ?''
"Don't II" the stranger asked, in sur,
prise "Would you not have taken it
if I had lost ?''
"Of course he would, of course. Do
you ask whether they would take it p
Every thing they can get, and little
more, too" shouted the voices around
the table. "He must pay +"
"Gentlemenl" the banker protested,
in the poor prospect of turning their
hearts, gentlemen, this person staked
every evening for the entire week"
"And lost every time" another in
terrupted him. 81 have been present
several times, and have heard so from
others, and he never made the slightest
objection.
',But that was only eight-and-twenty
dollars"
"And if it had been so many theus-
ands, all the same"
"But do let me fnish," the banker
shrieked with aspen lips and furious
glances; " he only shook out twenty
eight dollars on the table and kept the
paper back.
prove that I ever had cent more
than twenty eight dollars in the bag"
the stranger exclaimed, contemptuously;
"you won't get off by such excuses"
"Why did you not keep the bag as
we'll, companero?" laughed Spaniard,
who stood near "We always stick to
every thing that is staked"
"If he had lost again, 10 more than
the confounded dollars would have come
out of the bag" the banker growled.
Possible; but it can't be proved y
the surrounding players replied laugh
ing, "You must pay up"
H"Hanged ifI do the banker shouted,
and struck the table with his fist. "This
is new sort of robbery you are trying
upon me; but you have come to the
wrong customer I won't pay !"
'.I've lost two hundred dollars to you
in the last half hour tall, gigantic
Kentuckian shouted, as he elbowed his
way to the table, "and was forced to
pay up to the cent. If you refuse to
pay up that fellow, you most fork over