The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-26

c8ntooo otos cDeckB Sno excuucSo vs.
carpet .stds for first base. which wa TIN
4 had only 60, beneath the Intel Of tina,
door hen the two shots rang out, anc
thcn ] became still buster with my seven
league lesthers. ] was only about 9 bloch
that l hadn't heard any more shots, and
80 ntraced my steps. a. Mr.. j. Fen
:fhey we're lust folding Mr. Bullanoh',
dark. knotty hands acro.s his bosom
they had rested his remains on one Of the
further play for that evening wac sus.
pended. The dealer who had arrived first
and let the fragrant, piney air OF Spokane
into the half.breed's system. was making
a quie,-toned explanation to. Gaetz and
to the top cop about why II had become
Indian into a good half-Indian. and the
sweep-ups were piling the chips into the
racks and covering them over with cloths
DO these eighteen blue friolos that
hold 60 for Hoganr asked Caetx whom
got chance 10 speak 10 him. holding out
sessrd when ] decided TO duck the impend-
ing trouble.
mot ever, said Gaets. You can sink
'em for the dust tomorrow night when you
get around-we're only closing up out Of
respect for the deceased, think no, and
Gsetz winked sassly In the direction q ne :,
with the eighteen scales jansling In the side
pocket OF my coat.
AT the hotel I found hurry telegram
from my nrm. ordering me to make San
Francisco in balloon time TO cell house,
ful Of goods to railroad tia, was changing
fitting up four floors Of offices. and so there
was nothing for il but to make the get
away from Spokane on the s o'clock west
bound train the next morning.
u caught that roller-and had to carry
along with me. Istutfed them into the same
shaving brush box that had bean handed
70 me, dlled with the twenty chips, by the
diamond man who had himself been CHS
elled by bum luck out Of the chance to cash
In his Gaetz d Baer chips.
back to Now York. and ! am bound TO say
that 1t poisoned my blood lot to have
10 hike back 10 the Atlantic seaboard with
thai $50 worth Of portable property In the
shape Of those eighteen indigo tags;
when ! got back to New York the firm
would be my territory for the ensuing couple
Of years. and then I had to tumble the
Gaets d Baer chips longinsly and keep
them tucked away in the bottom OF my
grip, as the diamond man had done be-
In the fall Of ss the firm told me that
I'd better race out TO the Puget Sound coun-
try to see how the visible writing machine
business was holding on out that way. and
then ! pulled those eighteen blueys with
the Gaetz Baer stamp out Of the box and
busted them OF. II irked me a heap TO
have oil that wealth lying idle, with no
interest coupons 10 clip on the quarterly
days.
Il was ON the homeward-bound trip from
Seattle when ! made connections for
Spokane especially 10 fool away those
eighteen chips. saw Gaetz again, and he
j had made Of il 70 sidestep the gunwork
of Mr.. Bullinch and the dealer.
But wish you'd stand pat and cash
in those sleepers, said Gietz. They've
been lingering over the house for. a long
time now, and I'm getting kind o super
time they blow in they seem to fetch trouble
on the factory. Better cash EN- in and
buy &s) worth Of neckties for yourself
aBut wouldn't. | made Gaetz hand me
over to another dealer.
Take it away from him. s S, Gsetz,
chair, for these left-overs are for a sure
thing edging me toward the conk chateau.
Il got to monkeying with the king and
made the tired-looking old man crude
the ducats for me for quite q while before
and bowl and his f,ddiers three. When tie
king did emit that summons he frose me
out pretty soon, and. open or coppered, he
wasn't on hand or thereabouts when
got my chips down.
when I was down to about ten Boston.
ians, ] fomented a revolution and dethroned
the king. fell In love with the open three
spot to such an extent that within two deals
II got me down 10 Just three discs, and
just after I had chucked two OF the chips
onto the three-spot TO vin-another thing
big man with big bun walked into
the room and rolled over to the table at
which I was PLYING. III have TO make a
footnote OF il TO explain about this big
man.
been night marshal in number Of frontier
towns before the use o. violet soap and
talcum powder accomplished the civiliza-
ton OF the Great West, The night mar
ehals OF the old frontier towns used to have
a habit OF walking into the gambling ioin's
and toIing out OF the dealers drawers
for the gun protection which they spread
over the camps, they would occasionally
reach into the dealers drawers Of the gam
blers' joints and toll out Ave or ten OF a
twenty, or whatever they needed In the
way OF whiskey OF washerwoman money
thought OF u by the gambling house pro-
prietors. They took II as the regular
thing. and they were glad 70 chip in to that
extent for the night gun tanner.
But this wcs II the year 1893, and the
place was Spokane, and Spokane wasn't
q frontier town then. or anything like one
The rum In the big man with the big bun
caused him to bark back 10 the old tolling
out days, ard 90 he slipped his fin into the
dealer drawer quite easily, and with plenty
Of confidence expressed on his rummeripo
musN.
What for?' said the dealer. his chest
out at once, when he saw the large man
pinchirg away yellow twenty.
Because l need it, replied the large
man with the suds. and right then, said
to myself, DO, really fear that there is
quite some museiness impending and,
grabbing the solitary blue that had left
the other two were On the three. but wasn't
waiting-I made another mazurka for the
door.
The dealer wasn't hunt much--I got back
inside OF fivo minutes. and ascertained tho
damage--but the ball In his right wrist
was paining him quite lot, and the sur
9eon was sir ging eloquent amputation
stories to him. with the alternative Of blood.
poisoning.
Ny schedule .mperatively required me
tn leave Spokane by the early morning
train, ard away went-with one Gaets 4
Baer blue mixed up with my pocket silver,
and converted tito a pocket piece by this
ksmet thing they tail; about
TO cut: ! didn't make Spokane again
until II was under snow In The winter Of
97. four years after I'd been carrying the
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