The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-11-02

.sBY WHAT NAME MAY CALL YoU'i
''Oh, Deuce Low she lightly replied
''That's an insulting sort Of nickname"
he protested.
II don't think SO" she answered. I'll
my tall dad was to be called Jack High
wasn't it well enough to name his short
daughter Deuce Low? | haven't always
found SO much consideration as that
since we started from Omaha for Okla
homa.s
"And what makes you go to Olxlaho-
map
"Well, we're alone in the world--dad
and /; and we're rovers-yes, adventur-
ers Dad thinks we may prosper in the
new territory. I've voice to sing with,
and feet to dance witty
'sAnd face to bewitch with"
Instantly the glistening in the girls
eyes increased, as there was the sudden
moisture of tears to reflect the moon
shine, and she was silent. The young
man had spoken SO honestly that he did
not perceive how his blunt compliment
had panied her. He went on: your
father-while you're singing and dane
ing in some Oklahoma concert hall
what will he be doing for an incomer'
She was resentful. Should he not
have already found out by her improved
language and her decorous manner to-
ward him that she was by education and
experience better than the condition of
wayfaring in which she had come to
Camp Nineteen? Yet he could mention
her pretty face as directly as though she
had already reached Oklahoma and they
were chance acquaintances across a
table in a concert hall. Her desire to
impress him favorably was gone, and
without a waver of gaze or voice she
shortly answered.: my dads gambler,
and he's down on his luck. If he's to play
for grubstakes he'll do three-card-monte
in the streets till get an engagement.
If he strikes it rich enough he'll deal
faro in den Of his own
"And your VIII exclaimed, shocked
by what she had said and her way of
saying it, but with no idea that she had
spoken otherwise than heedlessly; "what
does he intend to do with your"
Didn't you yourself say ] had face
to bewitch within and she held her visage
still for MIN to examine. "Oh, Dad IL
do very well with me in Oklahoma.
Meanwhile that reprehensible father
was seated with Aleck Wiams ten rods
distant. A flat stone was between them,
and on its smooth surface were the cards
and cash of a game of poker The moon
made light enough for the players, and
they were engaged so earnestly that no
other talk than the play required was
INDUCED in. When they spoke 1t was in
very low voices, too, and it was mani
fest that they did not care to be dis
covered. Neither man could have told,
If he had tried to, exactly how the game
had been brought about, nor could either
have recalled anything in his own case
but eagerness for it.
Jack High had airily remarked at the
beginning, ashe drew his only dollar from
a vess pocket, There's plenty where that
came from, and so there was if he meant
the government mint; but Wiams did
not demand an insight of the pocket.
and so the first bluff in this game Of
! poker was made and won by the profess
sional gambler. Nor did he require other
capital than that single dollar. He
played to the end of the first hand with
only the coin and promissory words, and
afterward he had a steadily increasing
number Of bank notes provided by
| Wiams losses Luck and skill allied