The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-27
HIS ROMANCE.
The Reason the Confidence Man Quit
His Partner.
Cincinnati Enquirer.)


BILLY was, so far as mere surface
went" remarked the retired confidence
man reminiscently, the most finished
and pleasant gentleman / have ever met
and it was a pleasure to work with MN.
He would handle common ignorant
come on with the same winning cour-
tesy he did the big men when we were
working the great Louisiana grant deal
the one we did four years apiece Tor
and came out after paying the lawyers
with hundred thousand, nearly a
sixth of what we made.
"Billy was twice as finished an art
list as myself, and could make more
coin, but today he is still at work, while
by Industry and economy 1 am now
able to enjoy the fruits of my genius
and labor.
I'VE might have been together yet If
it hadn't been that he was aside from
professional matters, the meanest and
most unDrincipled man on earth.
can't stand a man with no principle.
We had just turned a trick in Frisco
that made the climate unhealthy out
there lifted a few thousand from rich
cuss that snapped at a chance TO earn
dishonest money and roared when he
got bit himself, as that kind always
does. and we took a little summer out
ing W. among the Minnesota lakes.
Say, there's a great country.
We'll, at our hotel there was cham
bermaid that was about the limit for
looks, but she had the reputation or
being strictly unapproachable. We
made bet of hundred on her the first
day.
Bet 1 win her out said 1.
Can't do it,, he replied.
BET a hundrId l kiss her at least
inside of three DAYS.
With her consent?'
Il nodded.
The money up he said, and that
settled it. l used TO be winner but
was up against it that time. The girl
liked me, but she had good training,
and she was no fool. Finally l offered
her a cool hundred spot, and it was
too much for her. She took the money,
held up one blazing red cheek. and ran
away before l could get any more than
the one kiss l bar-ained for.
Billy took my word for it, and dug
up the hundred.
I'm nothing winner at that 1 said,
as 1 tucked it in my vest pocket, L
paid a nice clean hundred dollar bill
for the kiss.
You're a sucker said Billy, and
that was all. After that L couldn't meet
that girl any place. If she saw me COM
ing she made a run for it. l didn't
L
AS | say, she was about the limit"
But Billy saw her all right, for the
next day he came TO me with a grin
and Haunted the hundred in my face.
You had no business to give a poor
girl like that 500 BILL he said, with
a chuckle. She couldn't get it changed
without losing her reputation, so l had
IS give it TO me-
" How? said 1, with a warm feeling
under the collar. I
Told her it was counterfeit, had
her scared to death, and took charge
of it as a favor to her. / gave her Il
five, though, as a tip. She can use
that.
oh, she can said I, jerking it out
of his fingers. We'll, she will use this,
too. And you and l quit right here
Just then l heard a swish of skirts
through the hall, and got out in time
to stop the chambermaid. She wouldn't
look at me at first, but l hauled her in
the room and rang the bell for a clerk
Then I told her how it was. and when
the clerk came up l tossed him the
hundred.
Take my bill out of that and keep
the change said !, and distribute
whatever is coming to this girl among
the bellboys. I'm going TO marry her.
And 1 did. Here she comes now.
Isn't she a dream? Let me introduce
YOU"