The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-04-27

[ against his own game and III back tbs
game. Ef he wins out, all right, al
right. too; but he gets out on the mex
train after he puts down his last check
Heating wasn't coward. but he was
| white with rage during this speech. he
cast his glance over the room to ascertain
from the faces of the others if any
Of the others stood with him. When he
saw that eli Of the faces were distinctly
suIen and hostile. he cleared his throat
as if to say something, but no words
were forthcoming.
- amt a-goin. Curtis went on, never
dropping his guns quarter of an inch
for a second, to take no uncue advantage
of YOU. son. but you're goin to get ex-
actly the same kind Of a whish out 0
them TWO outfits, to wit, the box and the
wheel, that YOU give me- Just lets see
the heft Of yoar roll and well do a little
before YOU begin
Heating stuck his hands into the
drawer behind the wheel and threw two
handfuls Of bills of large denominations
on the table. Then ne reached in again
and again and drew out tail stacks of
gold. There were two guns lying in the
drawer. but he didn't make any effort 10
grab them. Even if he had not been
stilI covered by Curtis guns. he knew
that he would have been shot to film
ders by the hands had be essaayed TO do
any hurry work with his pair of drawer
guns.
Count the rol, Cole said Honk to
FaTand and the station agent stepped
forward to the table and ran over the
bundle with his practiced fingers.
Good enough. said Curtis. Now,
son addressing Heating. git in and play
ban with that bundle. Ell you make it
stick, the boys hereu tell you that I'm
fr all you can win. You kin go up against
that box o yourn first. Mr.. Farrand
dealin EN- jest like you deal EN- your
self
"Farrand had already seated himself
in the dealers chair, and was looking at
the under part of the box and smiling
sardonically. He knew the combination
all right.
Heating saw that he'd have to make
a four-7ush anyhow, that his game had
been on the level, and he knew perfectly
well, too. that if he refused TO buck his
own game with his own money he'd stand
10 get worse dose than he otherwise
would. So he put on the air of bravado
and bought thousand dollars worth of
chips out Of the money that Farrand had
restored TO him-the whole Heating bank
roll
''Honk stuck his guns into his leather
belt strap SOS they'd be handy, and all
hands grouped themselves around the
table. some standing and some sitting,
to watch the play Farand didn't say
word as to the phony character of the
box. but went head with the deal as
Keating recklessly started in to scatter
his checks around the table.
''Farrand wore a face of iron for two
hours while he dished en- out Of that
box. and at the end of that time he had
s. 600 of Keating's bank roll He was
shuffiing the cards for another deal when
Honk Curtis, who had been leaning on the
table with his chin in his hand watching
the dexterity with which Farrand manip
ulated the cinch broke in.
'That'n be about all o. the game of
bank said ne. addressing Heating who
had ben keeping his nerve up with
Now. We'll see eff you can't do
no better with this marble I sure do like
this gamblin' business when I'm a-back- /
in it myself and not tryin TO buck it
from the wrong side of the layout. Cole,
shoot the pea f'r the ombrey and give him
a chance to git some O. that roll o his'n |
back
''Farand crossed over to the wheel. /
and he knew just where TO look for the /
controlling mechanism of it. Heating. /
partly drunk and sulen all this time, /
bought yeHows for thousand, and he /
began.
"Farrand now had it in his glove to /
make the showing strong. and he did not /
permit the sure-thinger to cop out one I
single. solitary bet from the beginning /
IF the play until Heating was in with all |
ais remaining s$6,0oo
Uh-huh. said Curtis. when Heating
With a very challv countenance wheeled
around after making his last play THAT
yiu about do, seem as you're all in, like
20 uexpect this we're camp of Nojave I'D
,e by the time YOU got through a-dealing
nut what You might call boheless bank
md no-savvy wheel. Now. you're goin
ravellin', it bein' the unanimous idee o.
his we're settlement that you're a whole
OF too fly people IF a quiet, law-abidin'
community.
o. You so up on the United that's due
ere at o'clock. and you never come
-hikin' back to Mojaye no more onless
-ou're loodn' fr the kind O tattooin'
hat bores all the way through the hui
nan frame. Here's $500 in case YOU get
hirsty tween Yer and Frisco, and No
aveu take keer Of the rest o the roll.
hath be about all
Heating was marched aboard the lin
Ted when the up-bound Santa Fe train
anne in town on time at SIS that morn
rs. and Honk Curtis. after fixing Farand
ut right for his work in dealing sure
hing stun. spent the rest of the dav
n dishing ont 10 the losers at Keating's
anne the amounts they had lost. accord
~ TO the recollection of it,
"Honk spent the remainder Of the sure
Ringers bank ron for the general good
{ Mojave and they told me when I was
, Mojave last year for visit that ever
nce Heating the cinch man was piped
at the sure-thingers have been making
etours of hundreds of miles around Mo-
iye in buil-wagon rather than take
chance by passing through the camp.
ven on the NOTWITHSTANDING cars.-New
ork Sun.
Literary Notes,
The King eff Belgium is reported 70 be
work. on book which viii be entitled
Red Flass ] Have Ran Away From.
A Chicago writer has gust sold story
lat has been declined forty-two times
he purchaser IS q dealer in paper rags
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