The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-13
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marked Il nonlmeCieu as We Wv o'So'e
the train. ia TO slap a bank and get II back
that way I've got all Of a n muth myself,
! and he flashed that he had got hold OF
somewhere. There's something good 60
| ing TO happen in the frst race tomorrow.
| but that's TOO far away Do you drop on
at jackson City with mey
jackson City was the dinky, huddled.up
i faro hank town at the Virginia end OF the
fh-huk-I feel so lucky to-day I
/ replied, grouchily and then the train started
! so suddenly that both Of our hats were
| blown of and lost. a.
The train didn't stop AT Jackson City,
but at little crossing about half mile
| away from Il. just az we hoped on one
, of the most devilish wind q, orrns that
| ever saw came up. The roAd WAS foot
| deep in red Virginia dust, and L Homme-
dieu ard were caught right in the middle
| Of that Internal dust storm.
when we arrived at the faro bank, about
half an hour later. after cropping our way
precariously through the tornado, the
| lookout wasn't going to let us in. We
| looked like pair Of hatless grave-robbing
| coons. and, although that was good many
years ago, cant make up my mind yet
that was ground into my frame in that
! storm.
II bought into the bank game to the
tune OF $50, and Steve passed over his 50
for chips. Everything was coming our
way, and both of us had several tall stacks
in front or us, when something happened
"A big yannigan Of prizefighter, the
champion heavyweight Of Virginia at the
time got into chaw with the lookout OF
the game, and then the pug kicked the
table over. The oil lamp went with the
! table.
I'VE got out OF the bank and watched
the shack burn TO the foundation rocks
The faro people got their money out. but
we didn't get our The main guy Of the
faro bank told us that he'd let us have what
was coming to us in chips after he'd re.
built his plant-he'd have il rebuilt and
running again inside Of about three months,
he said.
1T was 10 o'clock at night, then, and
L'Hommedeu and hoorcd it across the
Long Bridge at Washington. Total assets,
$50, in my kick. We took the side streets
for it until we reached a Turkish bath,
experimenting that we might have to stand
for pinch if we were ever scen in the shape
the Virginia dust storm had left us.
att 'ud be too bad not TO have something
| to put on the great thing that IL to eventuate
in the first race tomorrow, said LHom-
medieu as we sat In the hot room at the
Turkish bath. Only way | know; now.
to get it is 70 put dent In that stud game
, at the Owen House.
"He referred TO the alnight stud poker
| game that was then running at the
| now defunct Owen House, on Pennsyi-
vania avenue, within rock-toss of the
Treasury Department.
We slid into Tie stud game at o'clock
in the morning. | made a cut Of the SlS
that I had left after paying for the baths,
giving Steve 50 SOS he could buy in.
ave played until dawn, and when the
daylight began to streak in and the game
| dissolved, we were each about IS winner
| Combined assets at sunrise, $34.
nal, 10 ha ~ txyN at w
hats, at so cents each--wed been going
about bareheaded since leaving the track the
| evening before breakfast for two, clean
collars and cuffs for two, and the price
of the telegram which sent to the boarding
house, informing my wife that had been
prostration-and when we got to the st.
Asaph track about an hour before the races
| that afternoon we were just $40 strong, the
same being divided into two parcels.
"L'Hommedieu was pretty serene on the
way down on the train.
You'll have the green trading stamps
and be buying your household junk to-
| morrow he told me. It's going to happen
i want TO settle down and behave
Il didn't make any reply, figuring that
| he was probably Tightly from loss of sleep. ,
| in the direction of the barns when We
| reached the track. When he came hack
he nodded me over into far angle of the
stand
Jodann worked five-eighths in minute
by antern-light here day before yesterday
enough in itself. But they're going to
make it better. Jodann's going to get the
strongest hypo punch Of the quick juice,
just before the race, that was ever pumped
into an equine system. That Il make him
do the five-eighths in nothing. Gimme
your fifteen
What Jodann's price, | asked him,
Hundred when / left the ring, but it's
$50 now, all o that he replied, airily.
Johann, you know, has finished last III
fourteen straight races.
What s his price to finish last again|
asked, with dreary attempt at sarcasm.
for | was tired and sleepy.
Gimme your fifteen, repeated L'Hor-
medieu, in the tone Of a drill master, which
rled me.
Not on your Internal daguerreotype,
returns that I'm looking for from now on.
and I'll give'em all the odds they want to
get the small profits, What's the favorite's
price to show"
Two to to win. TO the place, . to5
to show said L'Hommedieu, deliberately
restraining himself, as he afterwarh told
me.
Well, | said, passing him over my SIS,
get mine down on the favorte 10 show
SIS to win 80, sre?'
"L'Hommetlieu took the money without
a word and darted into the betting ring.
l anxiouIly awaited his return but he
didn't come back with my favorite-to-s
ticket. although the horses were already
on their way to the post
1.-THE horses had Just got off when found
ste standing quietly at my shoulder. !
was all eyes for the favorite, and when l
saw that horse that only had to run third
for me. as ! thought, holding his own in
the stretch in second position, l had no
eyes for the horse that led the procession
and came laundering under the wire ten
lengths in front of my horse, which finished
second by head.
"'Coni0und it, said | to LHommedeu,
why didn't / play that favorte to run
second? / could ha' got $l2 to SIS
You weren't riding the favorite, b.
L'Hommedieu told me, and his voice vas
peculiarly hoarse.
al wasn't bawled, rounding upon him.
Dye mean to tell me that you put the last
fifteen | had down Oh
"'On johann, pal said L'Hommedieu,
still with that hoarseness In his voice, and
there's the winners number hanging out
over there. Compare the number with
your programme.
"'Why, johann won" | croaked, scared
at the very thought of it..
ain a breeze, by the length Of Phila-
delphia alley said L'Hommedieu. and he
passed over three separate tickets. issued
of the tickets read Johann, $3.50 to IS
NJ fbny,, Il