Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-10


Wolcott filled a straight only. The shrewd
glance which the Chinaman cast out OF
the tail OF his eye at Littler showed me that
he had IIttler figured out about the same
way.
Specializing ON a Draw.
when the two others had drawn wolcott
cautiously raised one corner Of the card
] gave him. We were all watching him
carefully, but l, who knew him far better
than either of the others, couldn't have
detected whether he'd filled anything or not
if my life had depended upon It.
"As soon as he glanced at his card VOL
colt folded 1t away with the rest of them
and then reached out to table for a cigar.
TO man used to studying small things in
the course of game of draw this sort of
looked to me as If Wolcott might have filed
something, and that, apprehending that
there was going to be considerable business
on hand, he didn't want to go smokeless
while that business was in progress.
Your shoot. Dave" said the senator
as he touched the match TO his cigar. Guess
me-
''littler lit a cigar himself. and pondered
There were three worth while things that
Wolcott might have filed. He might have
He might have stuffed up one Granny
in pink flush. He might-a remote
calculation-have filled a straight flush at
one end or the other.
A." Edward said Littler. gathering up his
cards again and looking at them carefully.
I am so thoroughly imbued with the belief
that the card you caught has its surface
broken by something inconseQuential, and
probably black, that it's going to cost you
$500 to make inquiries OF me-
"Wolcott dampened the end OF one OF his
fingers and touched 1t around the lighted
end Of his cigar TO make it burn evenly.
A" That isn't such bad Undue of yours,
Dave he said, but II has certain hollow
sound TO me. A thousand more, shall we
sayT
The chinaman scratched refiectively at
the roots OF his queue and pushed his round
silk cap, with the coral crown button on
top of it, over one OF his ears He was
the man caught in the cross-hre. His ac..
ton indicated that he took both OF the
cross-firing occidentals for buffers Prob
ably he eliminated wolcott from the cal
culation altogether. Still more probably he
took Littler's action in standing pat as
mere scheme on Littlers part, meant to
scare Wolcott TO the tall grass.
And thousand said the Chinaman
producing a little gold pencil and gold
bound tablet from beneath the folds OF his
dress and scribbling the betting tab on IT,
''LAttler cast a sharp glance at the China
man, as much as TO say, oh. no; so you're
in 1t, too. chr Now, that glance OF Lit
tiers toward the Chinaman convinced me
that LAttler had stood pat on a non-pat
hand. for there was a certain look OF fear
In the glance. I think that Littler's glance
IN the Chanaman's direction had the same
effect upon Wolcott. The natural query
was. Why should LAttler look worried over
anything the Chinaman might have caught
In drawing three cards when Littler him
self stood pat2'
However. Littlers next move showed
that he was still confident that he had
Wolcott beat, anyhow.
Seeing as how ! am the instigator OF
this pot he said, 4 am not going TO run
away from 1t ana withdraw my support
from IL. One thousand more
"oieott reached over and picked Up the