News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1905-05-24


| tinued Hunston.
"Oh, if the gentleman likes to behave
| shabby the moneys of no account.
| There's more where that came from"
said Ugly Bob.
| "By the rules of the game you're en-
titled to your revenge" observed the
| Brum. That's law"
Its only twenty minutes past l."
Hunston exclaimed, land you're not
| due at dinner till 2. You can run home
easy in a quarter of an hour. I've done
it myself scores of times, so that ex-
cuse won't hold water, my beauty.
But still if you want to go don't let me
persuade you to stay, only | shall be
obliged if you will not play any more
with my friends"
"If | ought began Jack.
"I'll have a spar with you, Bob" in
terrUpted Hunston, almost rudely, tax
ing no notice of Jacks exclamation.
did the gentleman speak| observed
Bob.
81 was about to say that l will play
you" replied Jack, his face burning
painfully.
Right you are. I'm agreeable. You're
kind, and I'm grateful. Twenty up to
save time, and | give you five. It's
odds against me. but no matter. BE
jolly is my motto"
"I'll hold the stakes" said Hunston
senior.
Ugly Bob handed him a sovereign
and his watch and chain.
Jack did the same, though he felt
an aching at the heart when he took
his beautiful watch out of his pocket
and thought how wrong it was to risk
the loss of his fathers valuable gift.
I'm in form now" said Ugly Bob.
81 feel fit to play for a mans life A
dollar l win him.
ITS a pound to pinch of snuff"
remarked the Brum, ''if he's in form.
If he says he's fit, I'll back him."
Jack began to tremble, and his nerv-
BUSINESS increased as Ugly Bob led off
with break of ten.
"I'll bet on Harkaway," said Hun
ston
Done with you for a fverw ex-
claimed Brum.
"Now, Jack, my boy, look out. You
are not playing well this game. Your
hand shakes. This won't do. Have a
nerver. A little brandy will liven you
up," continued Hunston senior.
Jack shook his head and made
miss.
"Eleven-tive, that's the game" ex-
claimed the Brum.
Ugly Bob scored very rapidly the re
naming points necessary to win the
game
Didn't give him a SMELL" remarked
the Brum. 81 knew how it weak bs."
"Hand over" said Ugly Bob, taking
the watches as matter of course and
pocketing them, together with the
money.
Suddenly light broke upon Jack,
who thought it very odd that Ugly
Bob should play so badly at first and
so very well all at once afterward.
Its my belief" he said, with his
usual impulsiveness, that I've been
swindled."
"WhatY said Ugly Bob, striding up
to him.
"Well, I never did" remarked the
Brum. 1.-THE young gent wants to say
that he's been done when it was all as
fair as could be. 1t was as square a
match as ever | see, but that's how
they always goes on when they loses"
"Look here" exclaimed Hunston
senior, 81 won't have my friends in
suited"
But they've got my watch" an
swered Jack.
Wouldn't you have kept mine If
you'd won it?" asked Ugly Bob.
"No. / had made up my mind to give
it you back"
"More fiat you, then" replied Ugly
Bob, with grin Of contempt.
"It's like your impertinence," contin-
ued funston senior, ito talk about
being swindled. You've lost your
watch, and I'm jolly glad of it, because
hate you"
Now Harry Hunston's real senti-
ments were appearing
"You brought me here under the
guise of friendship so that 1 might be
cheated" exclaimed Jack.
Punch his head, Bob" said Hun
ston.
Fright, sir" replied Ugly Bob.
And before Jack properly realized |
what had happened to him he was
standing in the road outside the Crown |
with a black eye, loose tooth and a |
nose which was bleeding, all of which |
favors Ugly Bob had conferred upon |
him in about the brief space of one |
minute. 1t was useless to attempt to |
go back to the billiard room. That |
course would only be to subject him
self to a fresh attack. So with Hun
ston seniors jeering laugh ringing in
his ears he wended his way back slow
ly and mournfully to Pomona House.
He saw now how shamefully he had |
been treated and tricked. 1t was all a
trap of Hunston seniors to get him
into the billiard room so that he might |
lose everything valuable he had about |
him. He had not forgotten the affair
in Black Adder wood.
Jack did not like to say anything
about his loss to the boys for fear of
being chaffed, and he was still more
reluctant to speak to the masters.
What should he do?
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