The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-20
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. flyer faro layout IN Durango. col IN
1891. Upton vas poiaon oil tho WY through
Hs had pretty nearly aa much Indian In
him a. white. although tho rod stun didn't
show IN hls features. and no had chippeh
~ least nine notchea In his clay rn before
he struck Durango. u wa known about,
too, that he hadn't been ~ tho level In HE
way 81 killing several Of his victims. and
when he got into Durang go and set ~ his
Gans he was looked upon by all hands
and Durango wasn't peopled by trouble
duckers than. either as q man who'd he
likely 10 take advantages In a mixup.
He wasn't liked. but his anne was on the
square. and IN had plenty ~ play. lie did
most Of the dealing himself. and hs often
dealt without the services Of n lookout, 30
eagle eyed was he n watching every move
on the board.
Before the little thing happened hat T. m
going 70 tell about Upton got into several
arguments with fellows who were bucking
his game, and every time the other fellow
In the argument had to back out Of the door
with his hands pointing upward, for Upton
had q mirsculously sudden way Of getting
tho drop on people who undertook 10 start
something with him
mo man that Upton ever had an argu-
o with over the way cards slipped out
OF the deal box was ever permitted TO do
any bucldng at his table again, and no man
ever WEIGHED on Upton, cit .er-that Is.
asked for markers and then when the
cards slipped out the wrong way discovered
that he didn't have the wherewithal to
make good. 1t wasn't deemed wise even by
men who NEW how to shoot quick with both
hands TO try any such stalls on Upton.
well, there was a hard drinking young
chap struck Durango from Philadelphia
who didn't know any more about the under
lying spirit Of a Western camp than he did
about branding steers, but who hada knack
OF slowing away champa gne at IS a quart
that beat anything Durango had ever seen
previous to his arrival. What he was doing
in Durango nobody knew. He probably
didn't know himself. He had landed there
with about q thousand dollars, and this sum
lasted him fully three days.
He hadn't gone up against a single
gambling game in order to get himself
broke 90 suddenly, but he was a basket
orderer from the uplands and even a thou
aand doesn't 60 a great distance when every
quart costa So and everybody within sound
OF the orderer's voice is in on the opening.
The fool boy blew all Of the hangers on Of
Durango of to the 50 wine till he was broke.
Then he went to his hotel and took a snooze
over it. He was a kid of about n or 30,
slender, smooth faced and boyish looking.
and he wat rugged out In tenderfoot raiment
that was only allowed to get by In Durango
because it's @earer was a spender.
when the youngster woke up at the enc
OF his three day whirl in Durango he didn't
have the price Of an ~eye-opener, much less
OF one Of those baskets he had been ordering
80 profusely. However, he wasn't exactly
tho kind OF a fool boy who'd attempt to
make a borrow from the fellows who had
helped him to go broke. He fixed himself
out with a shave and hot towels, and turned
up In the hotel office as spick and span as
II he had another bundle the size Of a horse
COLLAR to blow in on his favorite prescrip-
ton. II was about 0 o'clock at night when
he appeared in the hotel Office.
az guess III see IL I can't rap a bank
some he said 10 the hotel clerk. Where's
the nearest bank?'
''WeI, there's Pack Upton's across the
way, said the clerk. He runs a square
game, but you don't want to get tangled
up mont with Pack or he's liable to make a
lunch of you
bad. chr said the tenderfoot.
"'Pizen,' said the clerk. Real pizen.'
s'0h, we'll, said the tenderfoot, maybe
he's not 80 bad and he strolled over the
way to Pack Upton's. He had never been
in there before, and Upton had never
olapped an eye upon him,
when he walked in, besides the six or
seven players sitting around the table at
which Upton was dealing, there were half
q dozen men standing behind the chairs
dropping bets down on occasional cards
they liked. Once In a while, when these
ISLANDERS couldn't reach the cards they
wanted to put their gold on, they'd call
In q low tone to UPTON, Pack. lust nut