Arizona republican., 1894-09-21

know, put she DrOke down ana naQ a nervous fit of crying for half an hour, and I got away until she recovered. When 1 saw her again she was quite calm, and for two hours she talked to me of her terrible condition. He had been all things to her man should not be, and the community only par tially knew what she had to bear. He had beaten her and starved her and made her worl. like a slave, and once or twice when she had tried to escape, he had brought her back and kept her in dark room on bread and water for month. There was no place for her to go in the neighborhood, and he never gave her cent of money, so that she might have gone to some dis tant place. She was ashamed and afraid to appeal to the public for help and she was slowly being tortured to death. Fortunately she had never had any children.
 "We talked the matter over in all it's aspects, and I asked her, if I could se- cure her escape, would she go with me to my home in the north, for had married and settled down like sen sible man; and she agreed to it if it could be done without making her con dition any worse. 1 then began de- vising ways and means of getting the poor woman out of this hell on earth. and by night I had my plans ready for trial. When Jackson came in that evening he was in better humor, hay ing won some money on horse race, and he was not quite so ugly drunk as he had been. He was drunl1er, per haps, but it was not such mean drunk as before. After supper engaged him in talk, and along about nine o'clock proposed game of poker. It struck him just right, and we adjourned to a room upstairs with a couple of law yers and a judge who were stopping there over night, and the game began. At first Jackson won right along, and as he won he drank, calling every now and then for his wife to bring him more liquor, and whenever she came into the room and" saw me the look she gave me almost made me kick over the table and fight the whole crowd However, that was not my game, and let on to her and the rest of them that I was about as drunk as Jackson was; but wasn't.
 ''At midnight we had reached the climax. The two lawyers and the | judge had been raised out and Jackson and 1 were left for the finish. had four | 1N.,l l, Ia, de ir, those days, and I had an idea that Jackson hadn't anything to beat it. l also had my wits about me and Jack son hadn't, and 1 had five thousand dollars in my pocket, which Jackson hadn't. l had been blufing like the mischief all through the game and Jackson had caught me for a good lot on my recklessness, but all he had was on the table when the other three passed out. That is all the money he had, but he owned three good horses It was a game without limit, as ii often was in those days, and when put down two hundred he saw me tC the extent of one horse. Then I went five hundred more and he went an other horse: then 1 went another five hundred and he went the third horse. Of course the man was wild now with liquor and the excitement of the game and when 1 laid down a thousand more he was dazen for a minute Just then his wife came in, and with g curse he ordered her out and was about to throw bottle at her. She hurried away with an appealing look at me, and Jackson sat stupidly gag ing at his hand and at the pile O. money and contracts for horses on the table, and he was sure was blufing I could see that, but he didn't like tt take too much of chance. Then al at once new thought seemed to come to him and he looked squarely into my face.
 By the way he said, you used tt know my wife, didn't you?"
 II nodded coolly, though somewha rattlcd ct this unexpected recognition
 "'And you used to be in love witt her. he went on.
 Again nodded.
 "'You wanted her once, he venturet slowly, and l nodded again.
 By heavens, he exclaimed, I'll pu her against what you have there. it go?'
 ''Once more I nodded.
 'Gentlemen,' I said to the judg, and the lawyers, make note of that If l win, the woman is mine to do as please with. Is that agreed?' jackson assented with a string o oaths, and the lawyers got his sigma ture to contract to deliver his wife t. me if the game went against hl1n, O words to that effect.
 "'Now!' he said in tone of sup | 1.