Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-05-30


enthusiasm. che is at home. 1t beats
me. and lots of people don't think cur
lege does man any good. Why the
way he cured old Fis"- Miss Brlscoe
interrupted him.
'See.' she cried. pointing out OF 'ne
window. Lock out there! Something
happened
There was swirl in the crowd De
low. Men were running around cor
ner of the courthouse. and the women
and children were barking after. lheS
went so fast and there were so many |
| of them that Immediately that who're
| portion of the yard became pushihS'
| tugging. sguirming jam of people
| Its on the other side" said LAge'
1--WE can see from the hall wlhuoM.
Come quick before these other folks Hi
it up"
They followed him across the bu'iu
ing and looked down on an agltaleu
swarm of faces Five men were staHu-
ing on the entrance steps to the uooi
below them. and the crowd was thlch-
~ massed beyond, leaving little selnA-
circle clear about the steps. Those pc
hind struggled to get closer ana leaPeu
in the air to catch a glimpse Oh "h"'
was going on. Harkless stood alone Oh
the top step. his hand resting on Tue
shoulder of the pale and contrlte anu
sobered Hartley. On the lowest step
Jim Bardlock was standing with sheep-
ishly hanging head and between MN
and Harkless the two gamblers or the
. walnut shells. The journalist held ID
his hand the implements of their pro-
, fession.
Eyes; give up every cent" he SAID
| quietly. you've taken $50 from thlS
4 boy. Hand it over"
The men began to edge down closer
e to the crowd, giving little, swift, des-
perate, searching looks from left to
s right and right to left and moving nerv-
ously about like weasels in trap.
n "Close up, there said Harkless
"Don't let them out"
/, "Wy can't we git no square treat
a ment here?' one of the gamblers whin
ed But his eyes blaZed with rage
4 that belied the plaintive passiyity o.
q his tone 1--WE amt been runnin NJ
y
% our own money? You gotter prove l
he was a skin. We risked our none!
e fair"
cd ''Prove it! Come up here, Eph Watts
r. Friends" = the editor turned to tn
crowd, smiling-"friends, here's a ma
le we ran out of town once because d
knew too mueh about things of thi
er sort. He's come back to US again, an
gu he's here to stay. He'll give US an OF
ject lesson on the shell game"
tie cts pretty simple" remarked NJ
Watts. 1.-THE best way is to pick u
the ball with your second finger an
I'D the back part of your thumb, as 70
ITO pretend to lay the shell down over it
this way" He illustrated and shove
several methods of manipulation wit
nu professional sang froid, and as
es made plan the vulgar swindle by whiC
ny many had been duped that mornir
there arose an angry and threateni1
-. murmur.
:: "You all see," said HAIRLESS, raisil
py his voice, what a simple cheat it is
1st an old, WORKOUT one. Yet lot of y
ere lost your own money on it and tn
|
Ion Hartley Bowlder lose $50, and not o
of you lifted hand. How hard d
slc- YOU work for what these two che
Oh crooks took from you? All he erie
'ple sit is because you were greedy I'll
'oh- they robbed you so easily! You knt
anu it's true. It's when you want to
nef something for nothing that the CO
hey fidence men steal the money you sW'
ohs for and make you the laughingstC
ne of the country. And you, jim Ba
Tue lock, town marshal; you, who c
10 fess that you went in the game
ton oo,,+e,, worth, voursnlf"- His face v
eply wra +hfnl and stern as be raised his
tne cusing hand and leveled it at the
Tue happy municipal.
the The town marshal smiled unea'
mere and deprecatingly about him and,
anu ing only angry, frowning brows, III
ING only words of condemnation, pas
uslc' his hand unsteadily over his fat
anu tache, shifted from one leg to the OF
rasn and back again. looked up, 100
'urs' down, aEGi then, an amiable and Pr
nost! ure loving man, behOlding nothing
uslc' accusation and wrath in heaven
hing earth and wishing nothing more [
SILK to sink into the waters under
Is oii earth, but having no way of reacl
some them, and finding his troubles q
eie- unbearable and himself unable to L
eye the manifold eye Of man, he sough
lhe lief after the unsagacious fashion
cl'f a larger bird than he. His burly
as he 1,,,do'.,,,on+ sarias of commissions
lot at ILL eohs opd no shut his ewes
we're 49, hoid +hor, ca presenting a pic
eaten - ,,ie,or,, ,,nocua1ad in the memor
badi-
n his 7TT
ess of q VAG- .