The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-19

sudden attack 90 cold feet Ii was
early. and he was usually the last one
10 want to stop playing Moreover, all
though he was q swimmer. lac haan {
won any such sum as 10 satisfy him,
and he didn't advance amy excuse
whatever.
He only said. Fl reckon I've had
enough, and pushed his chair back
while he banded has chips over for re-
dempIiOu 10 be boy VINO was attend
ing to the house business
The alderman yaWned ana said he
guessed bed quit too, giving another
surprise, aHd Carney remarked, iu-
differently, that as four handed poker
was not "a game that he cared about
he'd Quit.
u looked ut the chief and saw. or
thought / saw, that ne was as much
surprised as T He Was-a square man,
IL I am any Judge, ana Pm sure he had
no more suspicion chan i had at that
moment. i doubt iL he bad amy after
ward, but ! never discussed il with
MIN.
"Then we both looked al Tibbets and
saw that Ea was not only puzzled. bur
angry as wei, and &c came 90 me sud-
denly that the five hundred he had lost
might be important money TO him after
his previous losses. 7 reckon that was
true, too. though he didn't say SO.
What he did say yFas
Got Real Mad.
wouldn't have SAT in your id
game II I'd supposed YOU were going
10 quit TINS early. j always thought
man would De sure of q run for his
money, at least, iu this game
'GarVeF said nothing lie had ali the
selt-restraint chat is characteristic of
most professional gamblers, but the
mayor spoke up readily enough
1 don't know Of any law that COM
pels man 70 play poker any longer
than he sees fit. lac said. but If you
are sore about your i've hundred. I'll
play You for haf an hour longer. Only
If we play We'u take the roof off. No
more table stakes unless you declare
your whole pile i'm at the start
Iiboets was furious j could see
that But ne kept control Of himself
didn't make the rules Of this
game, ne said, ana Pm not looking
for limit. TN play YOU out under the
sky if you like, only I don't care for
two handed poker
" Neither do L said the mayor. Are
any OF you gentlemen in% And he
turned TO the rest OF Us.
Frankly, 7 didn't Ike It. ] had
rooted objection TO a no limit game in
the first place and the sudden turn of
affairs did not look right to me- so I
promptly declared myself out of &C.. So
did the chief and the alderman and it
was up TO Carney and as a matter of
course there WAS only one answer To
expect from him. He was not likely
TO see that sort of "a game go out of
his house, so he took the third hand
and the game was resumed on the new
basis without delay
Lost His Business.
Il watched 1t 10 its close. which was
inside of the half hour agreed upon,
for Tibbets, after losing $4, 600 i'm money,
put up his business at a valuation of
$4,000 lit was badly incUmbered) ana
lost that, too, quitting the game q
bankrupt.
There wouldn't have been anything
strange about that, eNen IF 1T had been
a square game, but It. was not. I tried
hard TO detect Carney i'm some trick
with the cards, but be was a slick one.
If he was crooked 4 could not catch
him, though 7 had made up my mind
to rough i'm if I had caught him. 1t
would have meant a fight Of course,
but recISoned on that too.
But what / did see and what could
not Be proved, though / was surprised
that Tibbets didn't see it. was that
Garvey and the mayor were playing
together.
"Of course Tibbets had no show. He
Quit the game quietly enough and the
next day he QuiJ the town. So far as
I know he never went back.
Il had an interview with the mayor
next day myself ID which 7 told him,
when ne asked me why I was going
to leave, that I didn't care to remain
as counsel to any man who PLAYED as
good a game of poker as he did.
There was a dark red flush ON his
face as he answered. me. but his voice
was perfectly even as he advised me
to go back east and take a further
course of study before going into prac-
teal politics. I told him 1 thought the
advice was good and 1 followed It,