Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-12

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over the bundle with his practiced
| fingers.
"'There's fourteen thousand here,
Honk,' he said to Curtis when he had
finished counting the money.
"'Good enough said Curtis. Now,
son. addressing Heating, git in and
play ball with the bundle. IF you
make it stick, the boys here1l tell
you that I'm good FIR all you kin
win. You kin go up against that box
O. your'n first, Mr.. Ferrand dealin'
'em jest like you deal 'em yourself
"Ferrand had already seated him
self in the dealers chair and was
looking at the under part of the box
and smiling sardonically. He knew
the combination all right.
"Keating saw that he'd have to
make a four-fush to show that his
game had been on the level, and he
knew perfectly well, too, that if he
refused to back his own game with
his own money he'd stand to get a
worse dose than he otherwise would.
So he put on an air of bravado and
bought thousand dollars worth Of
chips out of the money Farrand had
restored to him-the whole Heating
bank roll.
"Farrand wore a face of iron for
two hours while he dished 'em out
of that box, and at the end of that
time he had $4,000 Of Keating's bank
roll. He was shutting the cards for
another deal, when Honk Curtis, who
had been leaning on the table with
his chin on his hands watching the
dexterity with which Farrand manip-
ulated the cinch box, broke in:
"'That'll be about all o the game
of bank said he, addressing Heating,
who had been keeping his nerve mp
with whisky. Now, We'll see eff you
can't do better with the marble. I
sure do like this yere gambling bust
ness when I'm backin' it myself and
not tryin' to buck it from the wrong
side of the layout. Cole, shoot the
pea FIR the Ombrey and give him a
chance to git some O. that roll O
his'n back
"Farrandcr over to the wheel,
and he knew just where to look for
the controlling mechanism Of it.
Heating, partly drunk and sullen by
this time, bought yellows fora thou
sand, and he began.
"Farrand now had it in his glove
to make the showing strong, and no
did not permit the sure-thinger to
cop out one single, solitary bet from
the beginning of the play until Keat-
ing was all in with his remaining
$4,000.
''Not a man had stirred from the
room during the entire play, and
when Heating scattered his last
stack all over the table and Far
rand whizzed the wheel for the last
time it was close onto morning.
"Uh-huh,' said Curtis, when Keat-
ing, with very chalky countenance,
wheeled around after making his last
play. That'l about do, seem as
you're all in, like you expected this
we're camp O. Moiave 'ud be by the
time you got through a-dealing out
what you might call homeless bank
and no-savvy wheel. Now, you're
a'goin' travelin', it bein' the unani-
nous idee o. this yere settlement
that you're a whole lot too fly peo-
pie FIR a quiet, law-abidin' commu-
nifty
"You go up on the limited that's
due we're at eight o'clock, and you
never come a-hikin' back to Mojave
no more unless you're loOkin' for the
kind O. tattooin' that bores all the
way through the human frame.
Here's $500 in case you git thirsty
tween we're and Frisco, and Mo-
iave'H take keer of the rest o the
roll. That1l be about all"
"Keating was marched aboard the
limited when the up-bound Santa Fe
train came in on time at SIS that
morning, and Honk Curtis, after fix
ing Farrand out right for his work
in dealing sure-thing stuff, spent
the rest of the day dishing out to
the losers at Keating's game the
amounts they had lost, according to
their recollection of it.
"Honk spent the remainder of the
sure-thinger's bank roll for the gen
eral good Of Majove, and they told
me when I was in Moiave last year
for visit that ever since Heating
the cinch man was piped out the
sure-thingers have been making de-
tours of hundreds of miles around
Moiave in bull-wagons rather than
take a chance of passing through
the camp, even on the NOTWITHSTANDING
vanishing cars" - Chicago Inter
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