The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-20

Washington I fell up against a game
that was new one on your uncle I'll
describe 1t to you, and perhaps YOU can
help ME out, for the best I could make
out or 1t one man just plain talked an
other out Of his money and the fellow
gave UP as gladly as If he'd seen an ace
full against his king up.
This is about how it happened AS
l said, 1t was on my way over from
washington and the fellows who did the
gaH1phng climbed Into the parlor car
Just as we were putting out of Philadel-
phla.' noticed 'em when thew first pot
on There were three of them Ono
was taIllsh man with a heavy black
noustache and a square set law. who
"ore grasses and was dressed in
a frock coat and high hat. He looked
about forty-five years old The Other
Two were younger, one Of 'em esneciaIIv
appeared to be almost a bow. He co1IIdp;+
nave been more than twenty-six or tu,nn-
ty-seVen at the outside and vet there
was something about his face 7 liked
ne was clean-shaven, about medium
helght' and when he looked at You If was
easy TO see that no wise one would ever
L. IL LIN OUT LOT an easy mark at any
thlhg: His face looked like one TI,a
seen in the papers somehere. hut ca1,t
recal whose 1T was. The others called
MIN Harry and the big one was lxnou,n
DIS LICK. The third one was vorper
CHAP OF ABOUT thirty-five but as he don;t
inquire III say nothing more about hin
Al three took seats together. the two
younger ones facing the tall man Diclr
was nan lylng in the seat across the
n,oie lying TO Kill time by reading a
IN magazine I'd picked un on the IT,,
Ihey started in talking on eenara1 e -
les politics and things like that ,' IN
was pretty near asleep. when
heard the one they called Dtcl, saw IN
VOICE little louder than thew had baor
taking. Wen, we'll, make 1t ten a .raroa
was VIDE awake in a minute yo,
see eeen looking for some one to
make up some sort of a game all the
way up from Washington, but It was
the worst case of nothing IoIo1 -,
ever seen on the line.
When 1 heard that rennart, oho,,& a.,
Ten jumped to my feet. but p-o+ noI5
~ y nyself before they noticed n
olan want to seem too anxious mr. +,,o,,
might size me up for a shark and ~
me glanced across, expecting to eaa
ooaro and a deck of cards and rnavb1,
piie Oh chips, but there was NO sir,
Is I'm In at all Yet 1 was sure
nao heard Dick make the remerl abo,-t
ten a game. ABOUT
When I looked over Harry ,,-,,
stFaight out Of the window and anneai 1ilSs
10 be counting the telegfaph polea oT t6a
rams we were jumping, or sametbjn - , i,ie
mat thought they must have isid iINs -
pet on the speed of the train. hest - 80 q
IN three guesses. had missed tha a ~
cieS OF agreement, you see. and "a tha,a
We're no pasteboards in sight, couIdn't
quite make 1t out |
After a little the young one. Harry
looked around and said, 'Knig4.. to queen
square, or something like that. Then the
0ther one did the heavy thinking act He
leaned his face over and began to chew
the wooden handle Of his umbrella Look
ing at the toe Of one of his patent leath-
er shoes. He didn't speak for about five
minutes minutes and then said, slowly, bishop
takes pawn
Whenever either one of them said
anything the third fellow, Charlie, thew
called him, marked something down on a
piece OF paper and once Dick asked him
question. --'-A'
We'll, to make 1t short, these two.
Dick and Harry, kept up their slow talk
for over an hour, each one having his
turn about every five minutes. Harry
was still staring out Of the window and
DICK looking at his boot, while Charlie
listened and said nothing
Whatever 1t was they were doing the
young fellow seemed to be getting the