The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-17

air. Denham had done the anteing.
! and the other two sheepmen passed Ii
fup. The stranger stayed. With four
/ fives in sshand there wasn't any par
i ticular reason why he shouldn't have
stayed. watched him when he picked
up his cards, and 1 could see that he
was good, for there wasn't a sign Of
the nice thing he had found when he
scanned the hand. He skated his 80
/ ante to the center and reclSoned he
stay.
GAME MADE INTERESTING.
Just pop in $40 more to make it
interesting said Denham, who was
fond of raising it before the draw.
Sure, said the stranger. I'll take
off the lid, if you want it that way
That's me- replied Denham, and
! then the limit was removed before the
draw thing that's not often done out
my way Denham looked a bit too eX-
cited for a man who monkeys with big
poker as he showed five $40 gold pieces
into the middle and said that he
thought his hand was good enough TO
warrant that much of raise before
the second serving out.
THE stranger saw the raise, and then
! ne asked Denham how many cards he
wanted.
replied Denham. You can draw TO
your fist, though, and take what you
need in your business.
The stranger smiled and discarded,
| picking up an eight. Then he folded
the cards together, laid them face
down on the table leaned back in his
chair with his hands in his pockets, and
waited for Denham to come at him,
after showing $50 starter to the center.
I don't know what the color of
your flush is chum' said Denham,
but I'm willing to pay a whole lot TO
! find out and he got out his wallet and
produced a bunch of the dark green
papers. He skinned off two 800 and
showed them in.
The stranger reached into his breast
| pocket and produced q wallet of his
own. He covered the 5000 and raised it
the same. 1t see-sawed back and forth
| thus for fifteen minutes. the stranger
doing some meditating and making his
raises slowly, until there was nearly
SO, 600 in the pot. Then Denham saw
the strangers last raise and said:
GOES EASY ON THE STRANGER.
g 'Pardder, you're a stranger to me
and therefore 1 don't feel like grueling
you If you were an intimate, bosom
| friend of mine I'd have to naturally eat
you up vita this hand and then offer
| you the loan of my blackboard to take
I you to the poorhouse. But I'll wait I'M
til We get on dead chummy terms be
/ fore | put it on you so hard as all that.
/ You may consider yourself called.
The stranger had a goodnatured
smile on his face as he spread out his
four fives. But his smile disappeared
very suddenly when Denham showed
down his lulu, with a jack of hearts on
! top.
You take pretty hefty chance at
| this game, don't you?' inquired Den
] ham, good naturally, making the pre-
( paratory moves to rake in the pot.
/ Never seemed to strike you that 1 had
captured the lulu, did it?'
The what?' said the stranger, with
a bit of warmth in his tones. What
are you giving US? Where do you get
off on this, anyhow? You've got jack
high, and mine are tours, which is a
walkover.' and he started to pull down
the pot himself.
Softly, my boy said Denham,
motioning the stranger to take his
I've got the lufu?'
What the devils the lulu?" inquired
| the stranger, this time with a good deal
of testiness.
/ Denham and the other two sheep
men explained the lulu to the stranger,
and asked him how long he had been
out that way. They pointed to a card
| hanging on the wall, with these words
| printed on it:
The lulu beats anything in the
deck
We'll, the stranger, after sizing up
all three men with whom he was play
1 ing, and making certain that they were
not stringing him, stood for it. He
/ looked a heap annoyed over it, and I'M
| til he threw away his hand L thought
/ he was going to make trouble.
I when they resumed the game the
strangers wallet had been considerably
! decreased in size. but it seemed to con-
/ tain half as much again as he had lost
in that big play in which the lulu had
/ beaten him. Again at the stranger 5
suggestion. the limit was taken off be
4 fore the draw. and by the time they
were ready to take cards the pot was
| worth $500 Two of the Sheepmen
] stood pat, and Denham drew one card.
/ The stranger didn't even pick up his
/ five from where he had laid them down,
| but nodded that ne didn't need any.
DIDN'T COUNT THE SECOND TIME.
When they got through betting,
1 about half an hour later, the pot was
worth close on to 81, 500, and every man
was still in the game.
{
! too much to the good to slaughter you
people after such a. hard winter on the
ranges, and I've got you soaked, any
how, and he spread out his four deuces.
/ The three others stood for the call, and
the sheepman next to Denham put
down his pat full with an air of disap-
1 pOintment. The other sheepman
| sighed and showed his pat flush. The
| stranger smiled amiably and spread out
his lulu.
There's something fascinating
about these lulu hands. after ALL said
1 he, and he started to haul in the big
| pot with both of his fOrearmS framed
| into d scoop.
Just a second. stranger said Den
|, ham. You're beat. you see. The lulu's
| been played once tonight, you reGnem-
/ Der, and therefore your hand isn't one,
! two, six. George'-turning to one of
the sheepmen-'let's have look at the
other side of that sign
George MelIen. the sheeDman adj
dressed by Denham, rose from his seat,