The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-28

room. His bucolic manner had dropped away from him like a shell.
 Have you fellows got any money between you?" he astonished the two einch men by inauiring, looking them both over keenly.
 The garrulous one was the first to re- cover. He pulled a bogus roll, with a yellow one on the outside, from his pocket.
 Have we got any money?" he in- Quired. with an air. Well, we've brought this gob down to put 'em out of business on that Ancestor thing, andr-
 That's all right, chum," interrupted the Pittsburg man, to the increasing amazement of the pair of chaps who had picked him up for mark. But have you got any real money? I'm not referring to phony wads, but to curren- cy. Because if you've got any, you want to go to that Ancestor trick with the bank roll.
 Its in. I've got no hard feelings against you two dueks-you're doing the best you can, suppose. And I've had my fun out of it.
 Its devilish queer that you should have attempted to make a good thing out of me through the medium of one that you thought was dead one, but that heard yesterday afternoon is the liveliest thing that has gone to the post this season, but we haven't got time to talk about that. Here, look at this" and the good-natured Pittsburger showed them the letter he had received as to Ancestors chances. They recog- nized the name signed to the letter and were so dufnfounded that they could hardly gurgle. .... .. ...
 I'm down." went on the Pittsburg man. Wired my commission to New York yesterday afternoon soon as got that letter. How much can you two fellows rake up between you2''
 The pair of chagrined but impressed sure-thing men went through their clothes and scraped together an even seventy dollars.
 Get it down straight on Ancestor, the Pittsburg man told them, land If he does not cop the coin I'll make good cChCltly 1IlClC llOlll1tl5 mean about me in dealing with folks who divert me. And I want to see how it feels to play tout myself"
 The name signed to the Pittsburger's letter about Ancestor was enough for the pair of grafters. It offered them a chance to make good for the loss of the man whom they had expected to shred for a sucker, and they had the latter's assurance that he'd stand their loss if Ancestor didn't win.
 They pooled their small bundles and on Ancestor at thirty to one, and five minutes later they heard the announce ment that Ancestor had won in a stroll. They took down twenty-one hundred dollars, which was ten times as much as they had expected to get out of the. Pittsburg man on the foray transac- tion they had fixed up.
 A few minutes after they had colIec- ted a dispatch was handed to the Pitts burg man. It was from the hardware
 mans New York racing friend dated Sheepshead Bay and read as follows:
 "Cakewalk for Ancestor. Get your two hundred dollars down straight at forty to one. Will remit tonight. Cleaned up big on trick myself"
 The two sure-thing men are telling the story on themselves to their fellow grafters down here. They feel that they can afford to, considering how soft the outcome of it was for them. They express. the view. too, that Pittsburg, which they had never considered as be-. ing on the map before, isn't such poor sort of a place.