The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-13
A RUN OF BAD LUCK SHORT AND SHARP

said the doctor. who had been playing
with extra caution since the game had
been made table stakes, and who had
something over his hundred still in
/ front of him.
The drummer said nothing, His pile
I was growing satisfactorily.
J They all passed on the lieutenant's
deal, making another jackpot, and it
was sweetened TO $40 before anyone
I opened.
Then the lieutenant caught three tens
and opened it for ten.
/ The old gentleman dropped and the
drummer raised il ten. The doctor
stayed. aud the lieutenant with a saw
age gieam in his eye, made it fifty
more.
"Thatll hold you for a little, I think -
he said, but the drummer went back at
him with a hundred more.
a IL was too much for the doctor, and
he folded.
Angry as the lieutenant now was, he
+ did not care 10 so further before the
draw so he made good and called for
two cards. To his intense joy he caught
the fourth ten and when the drummer
called for one card he did not wait for
him TO pick up the draw, but threw a
hundred in the pot.
The drummer looked carefully at his
card before paying any attention TO the
play. Then he said slowly, and as II
doIsbtfuliy;
Il reckon this hand ought 10 be good,
/ III tap you.
/ With that he pushed his entire pile
I forward. It was larger than the lieu
tenants, but the latter called him for
what he had-about $3.50.
I Then the drummer showed four
! queens.
I 1t seemed to stagger the lieutenant,
and the doctor booked curiousiy at him
as he went very white about the lips,
/ but ne steadied himself with an effort
| and pulling out his roll again he laid
; it on the table without counting it.
/ AS they found out later there was a
! little more than q thousand dollars in
f it, but they were all stricken with the
fever of the game apparently, and the
! doctor put five hundred more on the
/ table. while the others rested.
The hard blow the lieutenant had
just received proved to be only the be-
ginning of run of bad luck as sharp
as it was short. He lost two hundred
/ 20 the old gentleman on three sevens,
/ three hundred to the doctor on small
! flush and q hundred to the drummer on
aces UP against three little ones, all in
! the course of a dozen deals.
! Then the old gentleman dealt the
! cards, there being a Jackpot, and the
/ drummer opened it. Each of the other
! three raised in turn as it came to him,
/ so it cost the drummer thirty more 10
/ play.
/ He put up the thirty very deliber-
ately and added fifty TO it, but again
each man raised it as his turn came, so
/ that it was $50 more for him TO play.
He put $500 in the pot without a
word and this seemed to set the others
thinking. They all came in. but there
We're no more raises, so that there
was more than $1,000 in the pot before
the draw.
When the old gentleman prepared
to serve the cards they all stood pat
and the drummer pushed his pile for
ward again. 1t was somewhat larger
than that of any Of the others, but
they all called for what they had, and
after the pot had been carefully por-
! TONED off 10 show the side money they
all spread their hands on the board.
The doctors was an ace flush, the
iieutenants seven full and the old
gentieman's a tray full. but the drum
mer showed four Fights.
There was very little said. but they
all rose from the table and as they
started 10 leave the compartment the
doctor threw w his arm with a quick
motion as if TO catch the lieutenant,
whom he had been watching carefully
and professionally for an hour, and
vino staggered slightly.
The young soldier recovered himself
instantly, and, turning. said with a
smile:
THANK You. doctor. but it's nothing
only a cramp in my foot from sitting
SO long, and | need fresh air. I think
y step out on the platform for few
minutes before l turn in"
His manner was natural and thew
thought nothing Of it at the moment.
as he stepped outside. But as the doc
tor Went toward his compartment he
happened 10 notice that the train was
on high trostle crossing II deep cam
Yon.
With q muttered exclamation he
turned and stepped quickly back 10
the car door. As he opened it he saw
me lieutenant plunge headiong into
the abyss 1900 feet below.
Not till some years afterward did he
learn. quite by accident. that the leu
tenant had a considera bic sun, of
money with him at the time which he
longed to the regimental runds,NNew
York Sun.