Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-10-17

strength and mastery. When the maj
spoke his voice rolled forth IN those
rounded pillows that in a rich diapaso.
sing the mysteries of the deep
u friends. he said, with God
help and the brigadier's consent
which he never took the trouble to Sc
cure-..it seems too hard for this poo
child to tell what happened to her il
the gambling house at Butte that day
was there when it happened and saw
it all, and 4 viii tell you the story.
can't bear to see her tortured as sh.
has been this night Cadet Annis
Smith, take your seat"
He said that still without looking Al
her. With a glance At the brigadiel
which meant: How can help it wher
this big thing shoulders me away
she slipped behind the rose embarked
parlor organ and the empowering foil
age plants on the stage and was lost t.
view.
The brigadier sat watching the mar
with peculiar expression which M
one could have understood had anyone
thought to observe it, but the strange,
SO completely filed all eyes and SO i'm
pressed his mastery personality on the
consciousness of all who could see and
hear that nothing else could be OBJ.
served The stranger resumed:
Il knowed the gambler that played
it low down on this brave little Sal
walton Army lassie that day-knowed
him we'll He was big. hulking dog
that had skinned tenderfeet all the way
between Puget sound and Lake Michi
gan He didn't know what it was &c
earn an honest living. He just sailed
through life laughing at everything
and skinning tenderfeet
He was running faro game in the
Montana joint when somebody left the
door open and this little girl rifte6 in
The fellows wasn't used to the way she
went after EN- She Just waded right
in and tackled EN-, and them blue eve:
that she carried in her head looked
straight at 'em and through 'em. a.
much as to say: I think you'd be reaI
decent fellow if you'd read the Wal
Cry, quit gambling, quit drinking gin
and have respect for good women
That's what the fellows told me he,
eyes said to EN-
Then the big gambler she started
to tell you about comes up and says &c
her: Hello, little Parson Sallie, wha,
do You want@ L want to sell You a
War Cry she says "A whst?' says he.
A War Cry says she; and her calm
blue eyes looked him through and
through "a War Cryg says he.
What's thatg and he knowed as well
as she did what it was
After badgering her that way and
not making her lose an inch of ground,
he 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
at card table, and he took three
cards-a king and two spot cards--and
shuffled 'em on the table SO that she
could see the king while he was shut
fling EN- and then asked her if she
could pick out the king as the three
cards lay face down, alongside one an
other, on the table She said of course
she could He says to her: Try it
She done so, and of course she picked
out the king.
he says: That smart. and didn't
think you could DO it Now, I'll tell
you what I'll do; I'll shuttle the cards,
and every time you pick out the king
I'll buy two War Crys- Every time
you pick out spot card you are to give
me War Cry for nothing She agreed
TO that
The poor child didn't know that she
was gambling-didn't know that she
was tackling the notorious Montana
Bill In his particular speciality-didn't
know that she had run up against the
slickest three-card monte thrower in
the whole northwest
We'll. you know what happened
Bill cleaned the poor child out of every
War Cry she had and then laughed at
her saw her as she sat there. and
saw how she looked when she began
to realize that she had lost all her pa
pers and didn't have a cent to show for
'em; saw how white she got. and how
she stared at Bill lie he'd run a knife
through her body; 1 saw how she got
up and looked around at the laughing
men. like a lamb cornered by pack
of wolves; saw her try hard to keep
down the tears, and then she says:
Men, viii pray to God to lead you all
into better lives And her voice was
more. Then she walked out slowly,
and cried all the way up the street
The big man paused, for his own
voice had become unaccountably thick.
anu had lest much of its rich deep
swing and romance. Bat he soon re-
gained his self-possession and then
proceeded:
Montana Bill was q hard case, fog
sure, but he had small streak OF man
hood somewhere under his thick skin
The boys in the joint all thought i;
was great joke on the little girl, and
they laughed and shouted till they al
most cracked the roof But Bill didn't
laugh. He stood silent and glum. with
his hands in his pockets, looking out
through the door. Then he went ont,
saying he had game awaiting for him
at likes saloon, and he went slouching
up the street The further he got
away from the joint the faster he
walked. and then he done a sneaking
looked back to see if any of
the boys was following him They
wasn't, though. and then he let ont
them long legs of his for the liveliest
walk he ever took in his lie
"He soon caught sight of her. and
then he slowed mp and follered- She
was still crying, and people would stop
and wonder what was the matter, and
some of 'em laughed. Bill got on to
that. and it riled him through and
through He slapped one fellow clean
into the middle of the street. and went
r;obf mr., without a word heard aft