The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-04

amt cn 1TO or home e1 po n1pre T. 40 be- sbe
goin home to her mother he says.
well, he turned In with me- there bein
two beds in the room, an mex day he wen
scoutin' round for to find out what reel!
had come O. Mis- Bilwheel, an he learn
she's gone to her Mothers just like he't
reckoned.
He didn't say much, but he kind O. SCI
round daytimes, drinkin' more liquor I
was good for him, an he played poker every
take no more satisfaction into that nor did h
in his whiskey.. An he al'ays turned II
with me alter the game was on. Feared
like he didn't care nothin' about goin
to his own house now I Mis- Bilwheel hac
left. But he didn't make no move to gil
her back, and cd see t he were studyin'.
"One night a couple O. weeks a'ter, he
says to me, 'Greenhut, I've been thinking
a lot he says, an l reckon I'm good dea
Of darn fool. l acted hasty, he says
S Gu see Sc, in to help Me- MIS-
time enough, but was in a hurry, an me
on'y married three days. II I'd had sense
he says, I'd waited say for a week. an
then, If she'd kicked over like she has,
mebbe 'twouldn't ha' made no difference
But three days amt RELY long enough,
he says, "f'r man to get what satisfaction
there is outen bein' married to a woman,
II he RELY cares for her like do. He'd
ought for to wait a week, anyway, afore he
bets his pile. Then. II she calls faint 50
three days RELY amt sufficient like
Well, faint hardly to be believed. but
! that there little experience made a diff
! ferent man O. Jim Bilwheel. He KEEP on
| playin' poker like he al'ays had, so there
! want no question of his maxim a Twin +,
for he were a good player, an he stood in
! with the boys, an suck ers Is mostly alays
! plenty in Little Rock. But cd see t ne
was alays thinkin o somepin' an knowed
well enough what twas. He we're broodin'
hand too soon with Mis- Bilwheel. Feared
| like he couldn't get over 1t.
| "Bimeby there was things noticed about
him that was different I'm what had been.
He drinked consid'able an smoked all
| made the boys anxious about him was
! Z he didn't pear to be playin' 90 good
game s he al'ays had
! Pete Grosjean was the first ono that
f, spoke to me about 1t, an Pete was some
, mad, He says, III Bilwheel keeps on like
he's been dom fr week or two he says,
he don't set into no game I'm in he says.
| L can't afford it.
An then he tells me they had sucker
| in the game the night afore an him an
dred out of him, but Bilwheel 'peared to
be thinkin about somepin' else, an slipped
up on three or four chances that Pete give
him., so Pete had got skeered an broke
up tne game.
Nv ell, I told him p'raps Bilwheel had
drinked little too much, or somepin',
an the best thing was to try him again.
He's al'ays been reliable l says, an it's
likely he might not ha felt just right. We're
none on LIE. perfect Pete says, an the
most conscientious player is liable to make
mistakes sometimes
Pete. he didn't pear to be none too
well satisfied, but he sort o erunted an
didn't say. no more an the very next night
him an Bilwheel set into game with three
fellers I'm up in tn Ozarks somewheres,
that peared to have money an was lookin'
FIR experience They looked like noun
taineers. all right, but one on en- they called
Jack 'peared to me good deal like a cross
roads gambler t was Drash enough to think
he cd stack up az in a city game.
KNOWN Grosjeans deal, an Bilwheel's
habit O. tendin' 10 the fine points o. the
game, l want troubled none, but what
Grosjean had said to me made me look
on tol'able close, just to see II Bilwheel
was RELY out o condition.
They played a table stake game an
each man bought hundred to start, go
there was some interest into 1t I'm the
beginnin,, but that want nothin' to what
twas in half an hour. Jaok an one o the
was bettin their piles on anything better'n
aces. o. course. there was more chips on
the table in no time, an 'twa'n't long afore
there must ha' been a couple O. thousand
in . i5SiSti he we're n,,v,D. q, ....dv
as a clock an must ha' had more'n seven
hundred dollars in his pile. when one o.
these here yaps. q. red headed chap, asks
the other how long he's goin' to stay In town,
Then the other Teller, the red headed
a week, anyhow. You can't see nothin'
worth while in three days, An cd see
minute. an then sort O. faraway look
come in his eve, an / says to myself there
was goin' to be trouble.
1T were the red headed mans deal, an
Jack, settin' first, opened the pot for the
size Of it: Bilwheel had next say, an he
Pete raised it twenty dollars. Feared
after t he didn't have nothin' but was
boostin' Bilwheels game on a chance.
well, the dealer dropped an Jack come
1t looked all right to Grosjean, so he h'sts
it thirty more, an Jack stays, an Bilwheel
stays ,
.Grosjean give him, quick. sharp look.
but Bilwheel set steady; an Jack calls for
an Grosjean, ookin' MIGHTY white. calls
for three, He scent Bilwheel had throwed
him, not havin' no license to play on pair
like he had, or. II he was blufin'. to give
away his hand by DRAWN three cards.
Bilwheel studies for a long time, an finally,
he says, IN raise YOU three days. An
he shoves our hundred in the pot
when cen that krowed we'll enough
t what the red headed man said had set
Jim thinkn' about Mis- Bilwheel, so I
knowed the trouble was highland Gros-
Jean he didn't understand. but he cd see
trouble all right, an usin' a cussword or
two he throwed his cards on the table.
Jack, he looted -ort o. puzzled, hearin'
somepin' a ut three days but the chips
talked an he cen the three hundred raise
an fingered his .n pile to see what he had
left.
"Tll just about hist YOU what's here"
he saws, an he shoves it in.
III see that, an raise you n week.
says Bilwheel sort o. dazcd, an then he
woke up. like. He'd PLAY ed hisself out
thinkin' o. somepin' else, an o. course.
not being able to raise no further n Jacks !
pile. which were all up, he lost the pot, |
havin' only pair O. mines to Jacks three |
aces.
That broke up tho game, Grosjean
wouldn't play no more, an Bilwheel seen |
himself t he want in no condition to play.
An alter that there wouldn't none o. the
boys set in with him, an he drifted down
an out
"Ms' Bilwheel didn't never come back
to him. an the last herd Of him he we're
A rouster on one o the river boats" |!