The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-05-30

vas pause sssqTs he man :. ~ lsft hu:kiiS
man raised 1t q. 600. and each OF the other two
cards. vanbrush, when It csme around to BIN.
| quietly skated his $500 into the pot. and when
the 9theE th,ss had come up to the rsise S Sr t n, i ,Ss
largest pot they had yet played for. bat IL yss
not this fact that set the stamp q bevtldcI.
vanbrush, who chewed an uniiEhted cigar
thoughtfuily.
Every man OF 'em stood pat;
Good Lord 7 said one O, the losing Austria
h:nI ala Sh not t1 Sn eeyn yS S9es ss sntf mean were such
accomplished buffers said yanbrugh with =
smile. dealing himself one card
The betting lasted for a solid hour. II did
not go OF with a quick ratsplan. but slowly and
thoushttully, with long Intervals between each
brueh. were. TO use the purser's language,
plainly in a pipe dream. and although each Of
hour was taken up in the warnings which they
were constantly giving each other. The Aus
tralisn vino was a winner, for instance, after
his hand on the table and expostulate knowingly
with the friend next to him. A dozen times and
! give IL to Won as a friend. I've got you beat;
I've got y9q al beat; really EeG9mmsnd you,
"vanbrush sat quietly niiachins his cigar.
raising ali raises through tt All Until there was
S Chez o IN the lS s s;Seo >, II The G table. n" TSens fSe S sha
ming Australian, when the bet got around to
him. called a halt.
has gone far enough. feel rather guilty, in
fact, that I have permitted it to 20 so far. al
though you must all admit that l warned you in
fair season. | refuse to continue TO bet on .
dead sure thing, however. and therefore l am
you ali do the same Il you feel that you have
any show for the pot
by this time they were all OF them 50 wrought
up that they were practically SPECIFICS, but
they showed that they saw the force OF their
friends expostulation BY showing. each Of them,
his call money into the pot, none Of them speak
IAN in, gentlemen r inquired vanbrush.
striking a match and lighting his cigar. They
.-,vanbrush spread out his four mines and an
slght- The man 70 his left looked ut the cards Ss
royal flush OF hearts, one by one in their order.
in front Of him; The next man showed up his
going on. laid down. respeetively, a royal flush
men looked at each other for fully a minute.
no Dealt this mess 7 finally inquired the
Australian who was ahead Of the game, in a
You did. said vanbrush promptly, and with
the utmost, coolness. and your friend next to
you opened the pot
1T had been over an hour since the hand
was dealt said the purser in telling me the
~tralians had meantime undergone had utterly
driven put OF their excited minds the memory
opened the pot. vsn6rush probably guessed
this, and the same spirit of devfltry that melted
him to deal the hand now led him to take the
desperate chance OF showing OF the RESPONSIBLE
tty for the hand onto the shoulders OF one OF the
players against whom il would be impossible to
direct suspicion. Had he acknowledged that he
himself had dealt the hand. he would. as .
stranger to them all. have come under suspicion
for his play during the whole cruise to sydney
And so vanbrush's blu1 worked. The Aus
~tralians. when they had in a measure recovered
themselves, pronounced the thing a miracle.
and one OF them made a written record OF the
hand. which ;hey all signed. including Van
br1sh- Then they divice6 the pot equally and
pClled through the Sydney heads, being still
$50, 900 ahead OF it.
concluded Mr.. Hunseker. :. and the last news
had OF Vanorueh before I got this letter from
my friend announcing his death in Australia
WAS that he was working a small gold mine he
had purchased with his steamship winnings
about 100 miles west Of Seoul. in Corea-"