The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1906-08-10
Love Finds a Way


workin' together. There was Dave
Dangler, twenty years old, straight as
an arrow an handsome as a picture;
Lutte Brady was forty, red headed an
freckled, while ole Bruff was frizzly
eatin' supper one evenin' when com.
pany Of cavalry come along the trail
an the officer In command stopped an
asked US IL we'd seen anything Of o
party Of Indians they was after. Dave
knew where they was camped an
flowed he'd guide the sojers. Brady
an Bruff an me lowed we'd go long
an see the fun, for the Indians had
gcalped some whites, an the sojers
was goin' to clean 'em out.
Before sunup the next day the hull
crowd Of Us, cavalry an all. swooped
down on dozen or more tepees look.
In as quiet as the rest o. the snoozin'
landscape an killed or run out the hull
lot except the women an children.
These was allowed to go where they
pleased. There was one ketch that
puzzled the cap'n o. the troops, an
that was q leetle white gal about sew.
enteen years old. She'd been taken
by the reds a matter o. ten year be
fore an had perty nigh forgotten the
American languidge. Her skin was o
good deal Drowned, but her tow hair
an blue eyes was Jlst the other thing
from horsehair an copper o. the In
dams. The cap'n lowed he'd have to
"a Ia hor fo x.yhffa yNaapfa fhnrtota che
didn't want to leave the Indians. We
all wont back over the trail. an when
we got to our camp Lutte Brady tole
the eap'n that If he'd leave the gal
with us one Of us would marry her.
Lutte meant hisself, though he didn't
have the gall to say so. The cap'n
not KNOWN what he was goin' to do
with her when he got her back to the
fort, consented.
"Waal, the gal was left on our hands,
an as soon as the cavalry was out o.
sight Brady lowed he was goln' TO
take the gal into the nearest settle
ment an marry her. Ole Bruff spoke
MP aakln' what right Brady had 10 her
mofein the rest o. na. an Brady low.
ed he didn't know any O. as wanted
her, especially BFuff. who was old
enough to be her grandfather BruR
lowed we'd better all Jine in a game O
freeze out for her, an Brady couldn't
very well refuse. 50 1t was agreed
that Dave an Lutte an ole BruR
should take fifty chips apiece, an the
man that froze out the other two
should have the gal. The reason l
didn't go In was cause / couldn't; was
hitched already,
1--WE had chips an keerds--they was
the next thing we valued to our guns
an ammunltion-an' the three sot
down to the game. The gal didn't
pear to understand what was goln' on
at fust, but when she did she sot be-
hind Brady, an ! caught her lookin'
admirin' at Dave. The game went on
with var'us luck. Brady's chips gittin'
lower an lower till at last BFuff swept
the board on full O. aces an cleaned
him out.
1.-THE game now lay between young
Dave Dangler an ole Bruf. l was
watchin the gal an see by her eye.
though she KEEP up the Indian looks o
not carln' anything about which way
It went. that she cared a heap. Dave,
too, got mighty Interested. Fact Is,
be got so much interested that he was
no match for Bruf, who was as cool
as a frog. Dave had poor hands. too,
while Bruff held big ones, Dawes pile
KEEP runnin' down, an Brufrs pile KEEP
runnln' up. Brady got tired an went
away The gal sot behind Bruff nm
looked at his keerds I'd ha' reekoned
she'd ha' given Dave points, but she
didn't know nothln, bout the keerds.
Dave KEEP losln' tin his pile was purity
nigh cleaned out; then no got u good
hand an raked In q small pot,
Prom this time the game was pecul-
lar. Bruff drawed some fust class
hands, but Dave wouldn't bet. So his
pile KEEP about the same for some
time. Then Dave drawed some fine
keerds an increased his pile. Brufe
looked up an saw me smllln'.
HHe grunted an went on with the
game. Every big hand he got went
for nothin' cause Dave wouldn't bet.
Sometimes the two hands would run
near alike, but when Dave went In bis
hands was alius the biggest. Leetle
by leetlo Rguf.s chips went over to
Dave wanted to laugh all the time.
but didn't dare to. Blmeby Bruff
got three kings. bigger hand than had
bean held by either for some time, an
Etaked what was left o his pile. Dave
showed down . full O tens an clean
ed the ola man out. Then the gal
smiled q real American smile. the fust
reckon since abe was taken by the
redskins, who never learned how to
smile, Dave went up to her. an Il was
Z purity sight TO see them young things
a-kissln'.
'swas Dave helpsdl You bet. When
hls pile was low the gal TUX out from
under her blanket the only piece Of fur
nltur she owned an which she never
lot 80 OF. one o them leetle round look
an QinaaAa haekad with tin Wharf