The sun., 1901-08-11

whsn ths proprietor Of The bar cams up
from bshind and spoke 10 the young fellow.
calling him BY name. at The sAme time
gtpping him cordially By he band; They
got ths(r heads toeethsr and teIksd tn kow
they bad snother handahaks. and ths boss
Of the bar went away.
we had 10 pass out on tho lawn IN order
70 make for the gate, and just - w sgrnok
The walk Q Handsome mare, the number on
the arm OF whose ndsr announced her 20
pocahontas, dashed BY on the track In
her preliminary. She looked 20 toppy
slsssy, that / was a bit sorry I'd been quite
% sudden In my refusal to permit the young
fellow at my side 10 see her performance
In the race reflected that he wasn't
liable TO sec any other race aside from the
race Of the lass for the grub table for quite
{ k1Ss ~ Gllu r 10 70 a1jD) lP6 t1at - 10lij6n,t :
let him look at tho event.
Moreover, Pocahontas looked % near
70 the coin 70 me that was bit sore that
hadn't scattered a couple OF sawbucke
around on her TO get hunk for my hundred
10 the bad on the Black Hawk good thing
that'd been given TO me: But had passed
him the ultimatum. and / didn't intend 70
crawfsh. He watched Pocahontns Wheel;
ing around the track Hike swallow unoi
We reached the go-out gate and then. CIV
Ing me a look that clearly indicated his non
belief In nv possession Of ~ much a. .
nickle's worth Of sporting blood. he fol-
lowed on after me.
About four hours later we wore having
. feed In the dining car on our way TO
We'll, it's your buy Sid the young
70 fetch along q quart. Anyhow, I'm
broke
4 gave him tho sass. but he booked
Yes, said he, tho bundle got sway
from me. somehow or another, on the os. wGI y,
. cute look among the hne lines beneath
his eyes that meant Q lot. didn't tumble
exactly to what II was, nor did bother;
was too busy with my dinner.
AT Wheeling that night while we were
sitting In the smoking compartment OF the
sleeper eating Up cigars % to keep P awsEs~d; rslS.d
the thousand that'd be forthcoming when
produced the boy safe and sound In New
York-s news butcher came through the
car with bunch Of evening papers.
IAN the baseball and racing results,
he was bawling. when my young quarry
reached him at q bound and grabbed
paper out of his bundle.
His hands were shaking a. with palsy
a. he held the paper TO the light TO run his
eye up and down the racing results. When
he struck the thing he wanted he flushed
the color OF q backyard hollyhock, and l
could hear his heart humping against his
ribs as he tottered back into his seat But
there was an almost idiotic smile on his
face
-'well'' said I, beginning to suspect .
.'Oh, nothing said he. except that
you don't need to stay up tonight on my
account. Go and have your nights rest.
want to go to New York, Pocahontas
wins in a romp by three lengths, at 20 to t.
THAT soY said I, But where do you
butt In with all this glee?'
Nowhere said he, except that every
dollar Of my 81 900 was down on her. l
passed IL to that boss bar man that came
up and spoke TO me while we were liquoring
up on the way out, and he's as square a
man as ever mopped up the wet spots on
down in the ring and the other 81 800 by
wire at the Chicago and New York pool
rooms, and II he didn't do IL II was because
he broke both Of his legs before the horses
got Of You need some sleep. Turn In.
III be- on these ohoo-choo cars when you
wake up, all right
Perhaps was not some suky with my
self, maybe, when the young fellow got a
telegram on the train the next morning
from the bar man with whom he'd en-
trusted his wad. reading like this:
Got it all down for you and here's
hopin.'
tonia came on with the proceeds OF the
clean-up-a pat $50, 900. for the price In the
poolrooms had been cut when the weight
Of wired money on Pocahontas had begun
TO swing In from the track The boy sent
down for his firm. forked over the swiped
the reward, and after making the bar man
a present Of 5000 for performing the trick
for him he had cute little $4,000 stack In
his pajams TO enable him to dig for the
sinkers while he looked around and found
himself again.
4 met the young fellow the day after
he was turned loose. He passed me the
s'Oh well, said he, stretching his arms
and yawning with devilishly exasperating
affectation, what's fifteen thousand dollars
but a mere bag o. shellsY alluding to that
divyy-up with him on the Pocahontas good
thing that might have enjoyed for the
mere price OF dallying long enough to've
permitted him to see the race.
"No other chance OF that sort has ever
come my way since wound up the old-time
Headquarters man. trife gloomily, but
lemme tell you something: IL were TO
pinch a pan-handling hobo on Chatham
Square this afternoon who'd plead for de-
lay because of the fact that he intended to
bet ten cents In a bum handbook on Hick-
ory Jim TO beat Commando or The Parader,
I'd give him all the grace he wanted and
string along with him on the bet with all
the dough In my jeans-for I've found out
that a pinched man with a hunch Is as good
as a 1 To 100 shot at any distance from a
lump to four miles. II always comes his
way when it's him for the stripes and bars.
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