The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-07-14

wondered a lt.ll AZ the sharp glances
the shifty eyed chap from the Colo
RADIO gravel beds darted at the bundle
OF money.
Held the Best Hand.
When the train had crept along to
within ten miles of Trinidad 1t came
10 a short, grinding stop, but, as these
stops had been frequent during the
night, for no particular reason, we paid
no tenti to 1t, n went ahead with
the game. Three OF us had our cards
on the board, n 1t remained for the
new man to make his play. He threw
his hand face downward on the table,
put his hands in his lap, and leaned
back with a sort of sigh.
Seems to me I amt havin' no sort
o. luck at this yere game he said in
most pathetic. 'Hain't had nary a
hand with anythin' for more han a
dozen rounds. But they amt no use in
kickin'. is they. fellers? Anyhow, I'm
not all up VT when 1t comes to that.
Come t think Of it, I got a hand right
In any company. What do you fellers
think of it?'
we didn't do n thinking at all,
but our six hands went right into the
air just as II they were all being pulled
by the same m~arionette string. The
new mans hand-rather, his pair of
hands.would, as he had observed.
taken the pot in any company. His
edge on the situation consisted of a
pair of steel blue barreled forty-flves
that he had suddenly jerked out with
his last question. He held one Of them
steadily leveled on a spot right between
my eyes. and the other he slowly
r 1rro6 fran, of1n r n ri11 30 1r - @1,1
my two companions with one gun. AS
l say, we weren't in any frame of mind
to answer questions or to do anything
In the way Of Analysing the situation.
We did just what it was up to us to
do, and that was to point to the zenith
with the ten fingers each Of us had
been born with.
"'Kind o. onnery way of dom a job,
fellers, I admit said our friend with
the pair Of forty-fives, but you all look
sporty enough not to be particular how
the things pulled off, so longs you've
jes' nachully got t. dig up all O. y'r
coin an gilt junk, anyhow. That about
right, fellers?
None of us felt laxative enough to
make any reply. Moreover, we We're
interested in a newcomer who suddenly
appeared in the doorway Of our COM
partment. He was a short, chunky
chap. with a pair of guns in his belt,
LAIN Ola NASSSaAl6ly OdolLlCS0llhS d1Is
Rounded Up.
"'Got en- rounded up all o. K, I see,
he said to the lank man who had us
covered. Looks like a purity good set
O. perducers, too, t. unexpectedly that
broken-nosed boy yonder with TIL gig
lamps all over him. nodding in my d.
rection. The joy I inwardly felt over
the way my phony gems We're taking
him in was neutralized by h hostil-
ity that surged over me because of his
reference to a thing that was at that
time a sore point with me-this
smashed proboscis that a boy gave me
with a Skinny stick when I was a kid.
"'Stand up, ombreys, one at a time
went on the new arrival. with the bus
inesslike tone Of a merchant giving
instructions to his clerks. His Gig
Lamplets first. as bein' prob'ly the on'y
one O. tn three that's got all o. his
jools out O. hook nodding at me again.
You needn't bother t. drop none O.
y'r mitts jes' yet
He needn't have said that, for 1,
for one. wasn't bothering about any
such a thing. I was just picturing to
myself what {. jay he would look just
about fou seconds after trying it on
If he should happen to pass one OF my
r paste sp ark e s.a o ," ga, q y p avn he
laughing aloud over the thought. I
stood up. neatly covered all the time
by the lank, shifty-eyed chap with
whom l had been gayly playing cards
only a few moments before. Then the
chunky chap went through me. He
He even made me take off my oxford
ties.
"'Y' see, ombrey,' he said, in ex-
PLANTATION Of this. "a boy that's got SO
much shiny stuff shown outside his
clothes is li'ble a hull lot t. have more
nf ~ f,rolyo1 ouyoyy ont ~ ci~lk ~->1S1
ly While he's a-ridin' on TIL Sanity Fee;
an, as it amt much trouble t. me, no.
how, an l amt overlookin' no bets jes'
now, not none, I'll give yo' all what's
known as a 1ne-tooth rakin'.'
II had to cough a lot to hold in my
and when he hauled off the phony rings
I wanted very much to be alone SO I
could roll around n howl with very
glee over my own cleverness. Besides
the jewelry he got only SIS in money
from me He dumped the stuff into a
of it.
II stepped aside. with my arms still
fixed in that I-call-to-heavenAo-wit-
ness position, and made room for my
two friends after I'd been turned in
side out. Neither of them looked as If
$1,400 in the roll Of bills that had been
produced by the one who had given
me a bill for my ten silver dollars.
We'll, when the two bandits backed
out Of the compartment, and a series
of shots outside a little later on indi-
Gated that they were signaling to the
engineer that he could pull the lever
and let 'er 80, 1 Rugged myself as 1
had never performed that joyful stunt
before.
Too Good to Keep.
when I got to Denver and put up
at a regular hotel I was tickled almost
foolish when a newspaper reporter who
had heard that I was in the big hold
up came up to my to interview
me about it. I told him the whole
story, dwelling with particular en-
phasis upon how crafty I had been
in substituting paste for my good blue
and white diamonds before taking that
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