The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-01

Z told you i hadn't" replied Kent, sui
lenly. End he never renewed the subject.
Accepting the situation as best re
tors % the house his duty being 20 help
70 make up a poker party whenever MS
services were required On such occa-
slOns he was supplied with the necessary
money TO buy chips, and. TO DO McMur-
ray justice, he received q liberal percent
age on all the winnings he made.
lie Becomes DUSTY Jim"
These were at times considerable in
amount, and the money that was allowed
% him was sufficient 90 enable him 10
live comfortably and even, at times. exc
lravagantly. He was. nevertheless, un-
His moral suicide had been complete.
even before McMurray had intertered
With the physical complexion OF It, but
he could NOT shake off the sense of his
own degradation. Ii showed ia his man
ner and Ia his appearance. So that al
though he wore fine clothes of q fashion
able cut. he came 20 be known rs Dusty
Jim because of his carelessness.
Also he drank more than was good Tor
him. so that McMurray perceived that
he would never make first-ciass gam
/ bier lie served his purpose tOierabiy
well, however and his employer ceased
atJer a time to bestow any particular at
tenttOn upon him.
IL would have been better for him II
he had done So More especially would
IL have been well for him TO inquire what
Dusty jam was doing in those intervals,
sometimes two or three days I'm duration,
when he would disappear altogether
AS ii was. he supposed that Dusty Jim
had been a drunk, and as the latter
admitted IL readily enough. though surli-
ly. when accused McAlurray commended
MN Tor staying away and thought no
more about il.
Kent was not always drunk. however.
when he stayed away. He was making
I Dc MS business, for one thing to find out
as much as possible about McAlurray's
/ business, and was by no means unhappy
when he learned that the latter was not
80 wealthy as he was generally supposed
/ 20 be, but that in fact a loss of $4,000
Also Dusty jim was making IL his bust
4 ness TO get acquainted with high rollers,
more especially with those who would
not be likely to be troubled with any
l scrupie about getting the best Of a pro-
/ Iessional gambler even by questionable
/ II took some time for him to find just
what ne was looking for. and an ne was
] looking for. but finally he succeeded and
/ TOT some fOrty-eight hours thereafter ne
{ remained in seclusiOn in companv with
a gentleman from Denver who was per
/ soudllE UNKNOWN 10 anybody in Chicago
I excepting himself. What passed between
/ mem u.s. entirely a matter of surmse. but
/ Wnen lhey parted ii was with the ruiz
/ assurance OF a mutual understanding.
The Gentleman From Denver.
On the evening following Dusty Jim's
/ reappearance at MCMUrray''s place after
/ this particular vacation tho gentleman
/ from Denver allowed himself 10 be
! brought TO the place by one of the Young
I men about town VINO occasionally did
/ good turns for McMurray. and without
/ any urging, played faro perhaps half an
Hour. neither winning nor losing to any
Alarming extent.
/ AFTER a time he rose, and yawniug por-
tentously. remarked that he never did
| care much about faro. anyhow. but if il
was draw poker. now
And the young man who brought him i'm
SAID ne didn't play draw poker himself.
out the proprietor did sometimes. He'd
accordingly. a game was started
lI was a uVe-handed game. McMurray Y
and Dusty Jim sitting I'm as a matter Of
course and the gentleman from Denver.
/ VINO introduced himself as Mathews.