Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-06-22

three for A. quarter cigar. and he PLAYS
such a good game that he seldom has
To pay. lilo buys one New York news.
paper every night and what other
reading he does is from the papers on
file on the rack in tho hotel reading.
room. Dempsey rises just in time Ia
get breakfast before the din hall
closes and spends the forenoon walk
ing around the Office or standing be
hind the swinging doors at the hotel
entrance watching people 20 in and
out He keeps an eve on the register
and notes every arrival. After lunch
he usually meets Sayles and they play
billiards or sit down and discuss the
state of affairs in New York. Dempsey
is restless and nervous and longs to get
back 10 New York. He has no friends
here. and is too suspicious to make ac-
quaintances among the drummers and
business men who stop day or two at
the hotel and are gone again. He talks
to very few people except his fellow
exiles. II he dared TO run the risk of
arrest Dempsey would 90 back to New
York at once. but he knows that Kee-
nan is doing all he can TO get back and
he is afraid Of trap Dempsey is not
trusted by keenan, or the rest, and he
is not in happy frame of mind He
is:suspicious of every body and is in con-
slant apprehens on that some deal will
he arranged that will not include him.
He seldom leaves the hotel and finds
little within its four walls to amuse
him.
The exiles have escaped the grasp OF
the law. but they are getting their pun
ishment every day. The climate of
Montreal is bleak. and the fact that not
n horse-car run all winter and that the
snow and ice in the street are not yet
all gone illustrates the dismal prospect
of a perpetual exile in this city. The
boodlers do not enjoy the ice and snow
and they sadly miss the attractions Of
New York which are not found here.
Another thing that annoys them is
their inability to understand French,
which is spoken much more in Montre-
al than English. Every one of the four
is tired and sick OF the forced absence
from his home and would gladly leave
here at n moments notice If he could
turn informer and return 10 New
York.
A particularly lively interest is at
tached TO the trial OF Keer. because
some of the exiles believe that he will
not be convicted. They hold the opin-
ion that the District Attorney has not
got the brains and ability clustered
about HIM that Mr.. MARITIME had when
De Lancey Nicoll was the moving pow
er against the boodlers. Besides this.
they think that kerr's counsel are very
much alive and will make better fight
than has ever been made before. An
other curious matter that is rumored
about by those outside Of the exile col
ony is that Billy Moloney is coming
back TO Montreal. There are several
queer things connected with his depart
uro from here last fall. 1t is said that
two of the ex-reading clerks children
have been seen in Montreal recently.
Soon after Moloney's departure his son
sent postal card to the proprietor of
St Lawrence Hall Hotel. saying that
father was in Paris. Although Mo-
loney had been living at this hotel the
proprietor is still puzzled to under
stand why that postal card was sent to
him. 1t is also remarked as strange
that man so well known to New
Workers has not been seen or heard
from about Europe. 1t is said by some
people here that Molonev is now not
very far away from Montreal and that
the negotiations pending between Kee-
nan and Dstrict-Attorney Fellows
brought him home in hurry.