Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-03-06

!; brown mood on. who says, oh, sir, t,
the villain In the melodrama
When Supt. Clerke of the Unioi
Pacific mountain division cut out hi,
graft. Fatty offered him $1,000
Subsidy Just to let nim work the
sleepers on the overland mail. and
said he'd give bond to take on nobody
but ministers OF the gospel. Likely
he'd gotten sore on him a couple oI
months before for trying to teach an
old gentleman something about the
mysteries OF two handed cinch. Thr
10 visit his married daughter happen
ed to mention to her husband that he
had paid $500 Just for that one little
llesson-and the husband happened tn
II he ever put foot on the Union Pa
cifc right OF way again he'd turn him
over to the Cheyenne sheriff
Just about the time that Fatty
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the Colorado papers were full of the
senatorship. Fatty winded Tabor
he had cold nose for good ones
struck south TO Denver and browsed
around there until the new senator
started East. which you can gamble
wasn't many hours after his election.
| He had to get his moneys worth. yon
| see. and the game In Washington
was going to close down mighty soon.
Fatty observed with joy that Tabor
took the Burlington railroad; he took
| II. too also tne berth opposite TIA
boris. BY noon the next day he was
listening in timid wonder to the story
OF Tabor's amplitude of wealth and
honors and by 3 o'clock they were
playing little harmless game of
seven up with a deck from Tabor's
grip for quarter a game-no more
for Fatty said he didn't savvy cards
much and was 'agin gamblin' anyhow,
while Tabor was leery OF strangers.
They played along for an hour or
two Fatty with guileless innocence.
letting drop occasional little scraps Of
information about bis narrow, simple
life. until Tabor knew he was a hard
working miner, who in half a score
of years toll had accumulated enough
to give modest support to himself
and his old mother back In Kentucky.
He hadn't seen her sinct he came
out. he said, and now iie was going
back to comfort her declining years
and all that Tabor swelled up with
the contrast between himself and this
guileless creature Then, too, being
a senator, he naturally looked down
on Fatty That's wnere the senators
foot slipped. When you know enough
about a man to look down on him he
ceases to he stranger, and II was
only OF strangers that Tabor was
leery.
well, luck kept running Tnbor's
way In that little seven up game tfor
Fatty was playing like an idiot boy)'
and when the engine whistled for the
Hastings yards Fatty was out nearly
81 Then Fatty dealt and fumbled
up the diamond queen for trump. Ia
bor picked up his six cards and found
mostly Mngs-four OF them.
Now, no man VINO ever sal In
game could resist sigh at such
waste OF good material. Tabor had
ka n
card one and play this for poker
hand he said, more to himself than
to his opponent.
"T don't savvy poker mucn, replied
the gentle Fatty in deprecating
tone. He picked MP his cards and
looked at them; then he clumsily
sorted them out, sticking them be
tween his fingers like book-marks,
Then he bundled them together again
and gazed long at the diamond queen
lying face up on the dack. Then he
opened out his cards and looked
again. Fatty seemed puzzled; Tabor
grew interested. 4 don't savyy poker
much repeated Fatty but reckon
If had that there queen o diamonds
there I could likely beat most any
hand there is.'
"The senatorial heart leaped with
delight at the very thought n kill
Ing. Everybody Ii Legitimate prey IN
poker game. no matter how man,
dear old mothers they've got. Tabor
pulled on mis- poker face and Skinned
over his kings to see they were all
there. A glance at his two side
cards showed MIN the eight and ten
OF diamonds. which cinched even the
remote cnapce Of the queen making
straight flush for the other fellow.
"'You can have ner.' h. said, DIS
carding the eight and once more
squeezing out his fat monarchs to
make, sure none Of them had got
away. Then he pulled out roll a.
big as a mans leg. peeled on cou'
pie OF 800 bills and tossed them on
the table.
Take her up and call tnat II you
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