The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-08-23

that
An how she could playl She APP
peared to aIayS have a good sized Wad
with her, an they said if she was broke
there was alays some professional
ready to stake her to set in at the
same game he were playin' in.
She was too shrewd to play steady
with any one on 'em, so she never got
TO be known as nObOdy's side partner,
but she were on to all the wrinkles in
the game I'm shuttle to showdown,
an the Teller that set in with her
want likely to lose nOthin' if there wsa
any suckers in the game.
But after all, it were one o. them
temporary partnerships O. hern that
led to her finish after she'd been playin'
off an on, for a matter o. four or five
years
q" Feared like she'd played onct or
twice, with Teller named Jackson,
that come I'm Vicksburg, an was reck-
oned square man, as gamblers goes.
That is, he want never expected to go
back on pal in a game, nor to hold
out when it come to the divvy. I reck-
on the way he got the name vast he
, hadn't never been caught.
We'll, as 1 said, he played with her
mebbe two or three times in the. course
/ of two or three years, an there hadn't
| been no trouble atween 'em that any
]
some dirt. ] don't rightly know what
it was about. bat I heer'd he held out
after a game that had PANIED out rich
for both on 'em.
" Feared he hOgEed the biggest half
o the money, an she hadn't no way
to get even. on'y she told him she'd
see to il that his reputation as a square
man wouldn't be worth much to him
any more. He on'y laughed at her. an
said he reckoned his word was as good
| as hern, an she wasn't likely TO hurt
him none.
But he reckoned wrong, for whether
/ twas t she were more lstaned to than
! him, bein' a woman an toiable well
liked among the professionals, or
whether it were that she told a story
straigter than him. 'tWan't long fore
everybody was givin' him the cold
shoulder, an he were monstrous sore.
| He were that mad, in fact, that some
/ on 'em heard him swear he'd get even
| with her. but that only made it worse
( for him, an they laughed at him for
| talkin' about maxim war on a wo-
man.
You see she didn't ask no favors
| count o. bein' a woman, an so fur as
/ the play went in a poker game she
I didn't get none, but alter all. men can't
! forget such things. even when a woman
/ tries to make 'em.
well. IL come about. mebbe six
months after her an Jackson had their
/ fRllin' out, she were on the river again.
/ This time she come up I'm New Or
] leans an there was a sport I'm there
! that had about as bad a name as any
l on 'em for crooked play an for bein'
a bad fighter, that come up on the
/ same trip.
'Peared they'd meet in New Or
! leans an this Teller, his name was Die
/ ter. or that's what he called hisself,
| had fell in love with her. desp'rate.
| She di1n't have no use fo> him. on'y
I as a pal. but he were a good player,
/ an they'd made IL up TO play together
/ on the boat if they cd get into z game
/ that was worth while.
Dieter, I reckon. was countin' on
marryin' her sooner or later. an
/ whether he might ha' did it or not, il
| things had fell out different, I don
| p'tend TO say but 'twan't no secret
! that she'd said no to him more'n once.
There were a game, all right goin'
/ full blast afOre we come to Baton
/ Rouge. an I'm that time til il broke
up, there was some on 'em playin' all
/ the time. Now an ag'in one on EN-
/ d drop out for an hour or two. but
| the game went right on into the fourth
! day.
There was six in the game, an on'y
]
| knOwnst to me as professionals, the
| others bein' strangers on the boat that
/ I never seen afOTe nor since. but I'm
| the way they played I sized 'em up
/ for gamblers, all four on EN-, afore
| they'd played twentyfour hours.
They all 'peared TO be nOrthrners.
an they held out they were I'm the
north on some railroad business O.
! some sOrt-thaL Is three on EN- did
but my notion is that they was all
! sports that was tryin' the river game
| to see what there was i'm II.
They started playin' a dve-dOllaT
/ limit, but that didn't last long. The
limit were set aside the first day. an
! there didn't seem to be no end to the
money they had. I seen az high as
/ 81 900 change hands in one deal. an
! they didn't none on 'em pear TO mink
! that was nothin' extraordinary.
/ II don't reckon Dieter an Kate d ha'
lasted a long time in that size game il
! il had run against 'em long, but they'd
done pretty well I'm the start. I didn':
/ see no outrageous show o. crooked play,
| but I cd see they played for one an
/ other, now an again, as you can do
in poker if you want to.
but them northerners did a good
| deal the same sort O. thing oncet in
| awhile, so that was even up. Feared
| like Kate an her partner was too slick
to get caught that way, though. an
/ they didn't get nipped very bad ne
time. but they turned the screws on
| desp'r rate hard three or four times or
( the nOrtherners. so they was well ahead
! o. the game when Jackson IAa coma
/ aboard the boat.
Whether he knowed Kate was
aboard ! can't say. but II ne didn't
know it afore he found it out mighty
/ quick after he ut aboard. for pretty
nigh everybody on the boat had got
interested in that game by that time
! an all them that could was standin
| round. looking on at the play.
Nobody hadn't offered TO set in, bein
as twas "a bigger game than most folks
! wanted TO play them times, an there