Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-11-09
at everything and skianing ten.

'Ilc was Tuuuiug u tuTO BhtUc III NAOu.
tana joint when somebody left the door
open and this little girl drifted in. The
fellows wasn't used to the way she went
after 'cm. She Just waded right In and
tackled 'em, and them blue eyes she car.
ried In her head looked straight at 'em
and through 'ein, rs mucl, rs to say Il
think you'd I've real decent fellow II you'd
read the War Cry, quit gambling, quit
gin an lave respect for good
women That's what the fellows told me
her eyes said to 'em.
"Then the big gambler she started to
tell you abolt comes up nnd says to hers
"l1ello, little Parson Sallic, what do you
uantT 4 want to sell you n War Cry
she says. "a wllutY' says he. "A War
Cry" says she; ind her calm blue eyes
looked him through and through. "A
War CryT says lie; Whats that? and he
knowed ~ well as she did what It was.
"Aftcr badgering her that way and not
making her lose an inch Of ground, lie
told her he'd make proposition by which
she might sell him all the War Crys she
had. The poor little thing listened TO
him, and her eyes got bright. and she
asked him what the proposition was. He
had her sit down Mt card table, and he
took three cards--a king and two spot
cartls---and shufled 'em on the table so
that she could see the king while he was
shutting 'cn, and then asked her II she
could pick out the king us the three cards
lay face down, along side one another on the
table. She said Of course she could. lle
says to her, TRY IT, She done SO, and Of
course she picked ont the king.
"ile says: That's smart, and l didn't
think you could do II. Now, I'll tell You
what I'll do; Ill shuttle the cards, and
every time you pick ont the king I'll buy
two War Crys. Every time You pick out
a spot card YOU are 10 give me War Cry
for nothing She agreed TO that.
1.-THE poor child didn't know that she
was gamblng---didn't know that she WINS
tackling the notorious Montana Bill In his
particular specialty---didn't know that she
had run up against the slickcst three.card
monte tlrower In the whole Northwest.
swell. you know what happened. Bill
cleaned the poor child out Of every War
Cry she had and then laughed at her. I
saw her as she sat there, and I saw how
she looked when she began to realize
that she had lost oil her papers and didn't
have cent to show for 'em. saw how
white she got, md how she stared ut Bill
like he'd run knife through her body;
saw how she got up and looked around at
the laughing men. like lamb c0rnered BY
pack Of wolves; I saw her try hard to
keep down tile tears, and then she says:
Men, l will pray to God to lead yOu nll
tVsn t.atss.s 1tsnas al lsae SSptpa tayu az
choked up she couldn't say any more.
Then she walked out slowly and cried sll
the way up the street.
The big man paused, for his own voice
had become unaccountably thick and had
lost much Of its rich, deep swing and resOn.
ance. But he soon regained his self.pOs-
session, and then proceeded:
"AlOntana Bill was hard case foe sure,
but lie had small streak Of manhood
somewhere under his thick skin. The
boys In tho joint all thought It was n great
Joke on the little girl, aud they laughed
and shouted ell they almost cracked the
roof. But bin didn't laugh. lie stood
silent and glum, with his hands In his
pockets, looking ont through the door.
Then he went out, saying he had q game
awaiting for him at 1ke's saloon, and liz
went slouching up the street. The further
lie got away from the joint the faster he
walked, and then he done sneakins
thing--he looked back to see II any OF tho
boys was following him. They wasn't
though, aud then he let out them long leg,
Of his for the livclicst walk he ever took IN
his life.
"He soon caught sight Of her. aud then
he slowed up aud follered. She was still
crying, and people would stop and won
der what was the matter, ana some OF 'cm
laughed. Bill got ON to that, and II riled
him through, and through. lie slapped one
fellow clean into the middle Of the street
and went right on without word.
heard afterward that several people that
he knowed spoke to him, but he didn'I
see none Of 'em, and kept right on.
"rhe girl went straight to the head
quarters Of the Salvation Army, and Bill
fOllcred her In. She went into little office,
where there didn't happen to be any body
else. and sat down ind put her head OF
the table, and cried like her heart wal
broke. For the first time In his life Mon
tana Bits nerve broke down. She looked
SO small and forlOrn and miserable that U
he hadn't been tho man that done her ~
he'd u gone out aud whipped the fellow
that did. And when he knowed that he
was that identical scOundrel, and tia
there wasn't anybody big enough and MAJ
enough to whip him, he felt just like
thoroughbred dog that had been caugh
sucking eggs.
Iwaut to say this for Bill. Bad as h
was, he never meant to rob the girl. III
was only having fun with her In thu
saloon. and he meant to give her back tn
papers, but It wa, tho way she acted In TIN
saloon that made him forget. 1t was tin
pity that she showed for him and thu
little prayer she said that made him los
his head. And that was the first time Il
his life that Montana bill ever lost hi
head.
"And 80; when he saw her crying OH
her heart In the little Office, she not know
Ing that anybody was about, he didn'
have the nerve to own up like man. II
just sncaked a $50 gold piece on to tn
table and tried to steal out like thlel
But she heard him, and saw the none
AMI looked ut him like he was ghost
and sprung ahead of him and stopped bin
aud stood there looking at him with q loo
he'd never seen In no mortal face In Ill
life.
"'It was God who put It into your hear
to follow me aud bring that money! sh
said to him, and as lie has done thu
much, lie has done more, and will kee
on doing moro, until that big manly hear
In your body beats altogether for mankin
and Its Redeemer.'"
The giant paused. His narrative ha
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