The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-23

and TAFT made good. SO the pot was
On the next round Jim caught. q queen.
| Quinn a ten spot, Taft q six and Pr son
an eight Jim, bet .! and Quinn stayed,
The next round brou sht Jim four spo.
and Quinn another ten. He bet 80 and
Jim stayed. The possibility Of another ten
being Quinn's buried card was enough TO
keep him from raising.
Quinn a jack. 1t was still Quinns bet
and he put up another ten.
This looked little weak though II might
have been a ooaxer with three tens Jun ~.
decided, however, to raise with two pairs
Quinn made good and they drew their
final cards. jim caught another four and
showed his pile to the middle OF the table.
| Quinn took In an ace and surrendered
your three fours beat me In right he
confessed, and Jim raked the pot; That
gave him winning Of &37-and filed nun
stayed p With wit a bur buried ten, Quinn stayed,
Dusenbery dropped, Taft stayed ana
Preston made good, 80 there was IS in the
pot The next round gave Preston kiI g.
Sawyer ! sx spot Jim queen t Quinn IA
a blue, renIesentlng IS. and the others
| down to Taft all came In.
Then Taft raised 1t two blues. II was
a sign that he probably had pair q ,aGTkbs s,
others dropped. After jim had put in. his
! ten, he repented Of his folly, and determined
to stay out unless he bettered on the next
| round.
When that was dealt Preston caught
four spot, Jim jack and Taft queen. :,
Give you my queen for your JACK,
said Taft, jokingly. and 1T seemed more
certain than before that he had jack
buried.
Preston, accordingly. passed the n, Pet PEI
to bet He picked up four blues and started
to put them in the pot, but suddenly GREW
back. and said:
Il pass the bet"
The next round gave Preston an ace,
Jim a nine, and Taft an eight. Thereupon
Preston bet ten dollars jim stayed on his
four straight and Taft trailed
The last round gave Preston an aoe' jim
a king and Taft ten spot.
Two possible straights, and Prestons
bet" announced the dealer, looking care
fully over the exposed cards.
PASS the bet to two possible straights,
said Preston, and Jim showed In his pile
again.
The others dropped, and he had taken
his second pot in three deals. 1t gave him
S45 more, and his heart began to thumP;
!, "A few more good ones like these, he
said TO himself, "and that old homestead
is safe
On the next deal. however, he lost forty
odd dollars to Dusent cry, calling on two
pairs against that p!aver's three sevens,
and few minutes afterward lost aAty
more to the same player, who filled a hush
loser, having only $50 left, and, pulling him
self together with an effort, determined to
play carefully.
The man who makes that resolve in stud
poker is more or less Handicapped py nus
own prudence, and the next two hands
took fifteen more out OF his Pile.
Then luck turned again and he won two
or three times, and as money multiplies
fast in, stud poker he had again e little
Then came the hand Of the evening. 1t
was Sawyer's deal and Jim, as usual. made
1t dollar TO play. All came in, which was
not usual. as they were all too cautious 70
play on small cards. Jim had king buried,
but of course knew nothing about what was
against him.
On the next round Jim caught an ace,
Quinn ten. Dusenherry, king, Taft a
seven, Preston nine and Sawyer hve
spot. Jim bet IS, and again they all
stayed. Then Jim got another king. Quinn
another ten. DLsenbeTry jack Tart an ace.
Preston a queen and Sawyer another i've.
1t made three pairs showing, OF which
Qunn's was the highest.
Accordingly he bet $25. Dusenberry
stayed. Taft stayed. Preston raised #
twenty-five. Sawyer dropped. Jim
showed in his pile. making Il %. more.
Quinn dropped. Dusenberry cropped
Taft saw Jim's bet and looked to See u
Preston had more than enough to call.
Seeing he hadn't, he did not raise. Then
Preston came in with his pile, which was
only s42
Ii was evident that Taft had aces and
that Preston had queens, so Jim's two
kings looked rather hopeless. His money
was all in, however, and he had the same
chance to better that the others had, so
he set his jaws and waited.
As it happened he did better, catching
the case ace on the last round. and the
others did not, so he took in that, pot,
Counting up his chips, he found he had
1885. Hastily showing them over to the
banker, he asked for money and got It,.
Sold feet eh!" said Sawyer, sneeringly.
His luck had been vastly different from
the night before.
Il think they're frozen, said Jim, laugh
ingly, and he babe them all good night:
Twenty minutes later there was a thun-
dering knock at Jacks door, and when,
haggard with anxiety. and tired with pacing
his room. he opened the door, jim en-
braced him schoolboy fashion, as he had
never done before
THE old home ia safe, Jack. he declared,
gleefplly, as he placed roll of bills in his
friends hand. IAN want Is for you to take
me down there again, next vacation. And
saw. Jack. I've Joined you in one thing.