The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-16
Took the Pot
With s KeS...
4 Successful Russ 81 . MAn
Who Hod Lost ~ Polxsr.

WAS ABOUT q. m ana eveTytMue
:Dia You ever lose game of
man who Mt the set-in mad nudged the
next man, indicating that the colonel
would be lucky to get away with his
'sGnce.." replied the colonel as he
stretched rubber band over corpulent
roll of bills.
Flow did it happen?" asked the little
man increduously.
Yes. ten US about it. colonel" said the
'Well. I dion't exast!y lose:" began
the colonel: II was the victim of circum-
ssoSs dozen naggensa pears axo n Carson City
IA game had been gong on nightly for
a week in hail in the rear of store
Links were sold. l had been favored
with a streak of luck and had pulled In
nice pile. The biggest and last game at
stranger to Carson City was present
that evening and asked for an introduc.
tion. At first was leary of him, bus
when l cleaned him out a time or two
began to regard him as real sociable
fast. Several Of the fellows had lost their
esoa Ths
sorry f Tor him: it seemed just like taking
"soon after midnight desperate fellow
from Denver made IL move to blum al!
1se% Winning HS asknS pss..S but
agreed to his proposition and SO did the
raised. rTiThs Thse stranser @ tilted back In his
chair. mopped his brow with his hanu as
1hakng ha s of os asxns nna
cantly at the table he began to humble:
Poor Anna. poor Anna ,
II could never stand for anything like
heart.
the point of proposing to the others that
we stake the stranger. when he suddenly
leading to the store, talking inconerentiy
the table. but such sights were more or
less common and in a few moments the
excitement of the game made up forget
Il won that time and was arranging my
ed the stranger. The fact that he had
put the key in his pocket caused us to
observe that he had in his hand a keg
which we knew contained powder.
Before we could move he rushed to
the stove. and. swinsing open tine door.
heaved in the keg with the unconcerned
comment of. Here we all go to thunder
"rhe door being bolted there was only
one way of escape, small window In the
rear of the room. and the next second ev-
and scrambli-g and fully expecting to feel
whole house hang ing to us. We didn't
wait to raise the window; we jumped into
the glass head first.
u get stuck at the hotton Of the bunch
and everybody else climbed out over my
Spine. OF course, we were not a minute
leaving the room, but II seemed like
month.
81 was the last nan ont and I lost no
time in pursuing the others. who were
cant lot. We must have run a dozen
SQUARES before we brought up and looked
It's there vet, said one of the fellows,
meaning the store.
At this no,nt in the ney",tive the little
chair as though hc had been there and
exclaimed:
Ibid ..Did you have any money with YOU.
We'll. no. renlied the colonel. I'm
sorry to say I did not You see. we took
il for granted that unless we got o.lt of
the store IN ri, about two ticks ic hf watch
in the trip he casually mentioned when he
threw the keg in the stove and money
wouldn't have been any object to us down
while we We're getting our breath the
feverish man from Denver whose teeth
were still chatterlng. suggested that the
eSriosion had occurred according to
schedule. that our r,i~ds We're so occupied
it. and that 1 the reains . s woua @ $50 soon o de-
scend. Then somebody thought Of the
money we had left under a horseshoe on
II thought of something else-the
stranger. I explained to the crowd as
impaesicnatelv POSSIBLE. that 1t was my
ho"Sst conviction that we had been done.
turned TO the store. 1t was there eSre,t-
irg the window, which we had carried OF
with MS. frame and all. but the s. rangare
and the Uoney wor gone. The man in the
store in front dt!nt know anything had
hao-ered.
Didn't a man come in here and get
4 keg OF powder?' we asked all at once.
"A man caue in he-e WIS the reply,
I
gave him an em~ty powder keg.'
"4t is ns"diesS tn cav" tho colonel con-
cluded. while tn" fellows lied him. "that
I have not since had the vi ~asurn Of meet
ing the stranger. Nashville American.
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