Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-06-30

was served, that in the use Of ardent spsr-
its there was a happy medium that no
man should transcend.
All this may be true, but there are, I'M
doubtedly, those who. if they imbibe the
aforesaid ardent spirits at all, far trans
cend the happy medium to which the
banker alluded.
Such one was Robert Kellogg; in fact,
he rarely made use of the wine when it
is red that he did not transcend; and on
this occasion between rejoicing over his
sisters improvement and an UNUSUAL
stroke Of good fortune on the Board OF
Trade, he was impelled to indulge so free
ly that when in the evening he visited one
of the theaters, to his eyes double bail
was being enacted on the stage at one
and the same time-at least the charac-
tiers were in duplicate.
He left the theater before the perform
ance was concluded, met three or four
friends, and INDUCED in as many drinks,
and was passing down Clark street, not
walking any too straight, when ae en-
countered man who was in the act OF
entering a door just north of a notorious
Clark street saloon.
The man looked up as he stepped in the
doorway, and Robert, who had been mind
full of Sellars' charge in relation to GER
tain individual, recognized, Or thought he
did, the person the detective had pointed
out to him in the park on the seventeenth.
Robert was we'll aware that the stair
way leading from this door terminated at
some rather extensive gambling rooms
two floors above.
The gentleman he had so nearly come
into collision with had faced about and
stood in the door, seemingly hesitating
whether to ascend the stairs.
care you intending to test your luck?'
asked Robert If so, go ahead. should
be fortunate tonight"
$50 should To- observed the man of the
park, as he assembled the stairs.
Robert followed him, and five minutes
later tie two men were seated side by
side at a table, on the second floor, each
with q goodly sized stack of little white
ivory chips before him. 1t was evident
that in neither case was stranger seat
ed at the table.
The two men played with varying sue
cess, seemingly regardless Of others
around them and apparently paying little
attention to each other, though when eth
er had made an unusually successful play,
the porter was summoned with the side
board decanter.
AS time passed on they became more
and more talkative, and We're soon ON the
best of terms. Both became joyial.
Robert thought once or twice of posi-
bic foolish suspicious that Sellars might
have had in regard to this man. Later
he forgot all about the detective and all
about his suspicious.
The trips Of the decanter became more
and more frequent. Each time the fiery
LIQUID that had filed Roberts glass went
down his throat, while of the contents Of
his friends glass a good portion found it's
way into a convenient cuspidOr.
1t was exceedingly warm in the room
and Robert was fast becoming thorough
ly inebr:ated.
The young man was soon making me-
chanical moves with the chips in a dazed
condition and almost unconscious what
he was doing.
The dealer knew who he was, and as
Robert had, on two occasions, loaned him
money when he was sadly in need of the
same, had no desire to rob him outright
so he said:
"Robert-Mr. Kellogg, you had better
cash IN your chips for tonight. This warm
room and that brandy have about knocked
YOU out The game will be running to-
morrow. Let me cash them. You are
twenty dollars ahead, at least, as full as
you are"
"You, you are about right, Abe. Ca
cash 'em in. I'm drunk, an I'll go"
The man of the park cashed his in also.
Il will help him down stairs and into
car" he said, cor he'll break his neck"
Robert, indeed, could hardly stand On
his feet.
81 never saw Bob Kellogg in as bad
fix as that before" remarked the dealer
as the door closed behind the two men.
''Who is that man who passed out with
him, Abe?" asked one Of the proprietors.
Il can't recall his name, if, indeed, 1
ever knew it; but he has called in here
occasionally for the past two Or three
weeks"
(To be cont,nued.)
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