The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-04-16

at you TO lay against my A mutt But
1 am expressing keen cqdence, pal.
that he isn't goiSs TO win
"Whereupon we dlspcr9 to OUT re-
soectiye rooms.
Now, l didn't particulk like this
proposition. II was a ofdeal more
off the level than l careds work al
though / sure was pickingt a heap of
a calloused conscience OF there on
the block at the island. And vet
didn't want to turn this how down
He WAS an attractive kinbf a chap,
and probably the warmesqrd among
all of the owners over thept AIexan-
der island, in the first PIE. and, In
the second, doped 1t out 1t he knew
so much about the game,nd was SO
we'll on the inside. that / CONT afford
to hurl q refusal into him first time
he asked me to execute q 4 OF q Job
for him. / knew. of course. lat he was
too smooth an oil TO chucAway $1,000
on an uncertainty, and itruck me
that II he had $1,000 worth confidence
that his horse wasn't goS TO win,
here'd be q great chance 1me to go
him several better and Ink IL big
haul down. The more l tMght this
over the less my conscic4 troubled
me, but ell the same, wheIi woke up
the next morning I not hly side
stepped 1t, but passed 1t ulso far as
any profit of my own was o&erned
The Plot Succeec
II concluded to lay the ohr's $1,000
at the regular prevailing OF and, II
his horse lost, so much theetter for
him and so much the VOL for me.
When the race came erounI waited
for the star layer and pricnaker to
open up, and he made the erse that
was going to lose ] TO sh So did
I and all the rest OF 'em. y players
ate the price up. so cinchy dIthe race
look for the horse belonging the man
whose $1,000 / had to lay ainst the
win. ! took down clean 80 Of the
public coin at l TO 2, and theInot car
Ing to fool with my own mon, / made
u book with the favorite on / was
able to round the book, aittook In
quite a bunch of coin that ". Then
l watched the race.
MY owner friends nag %athe top
weight. with 11S up, and ths was a
husky, raw-boned boy on hlssck who
looked as II he might be able hold In
a six-mule Government tes going
down the side OF a mountainFor all
that, the horse under him 1hped off
in the lead, beating the flag. alopened
up an immediate gap of a ut four
lengths. The ducks who ha played
him for sure thing let out t1r roars
then and chucked their hats uDs II It
was all over. Coming into tlstretch
the favorite began to falter anio back
up. but the boy on his back wlsuch a
biceps scientist that few coulcee that
the horse was having his mou sawed
off. Strengthened away In thstretch
one of the rank outsiders waalmost
on even terms with the l 10 ttg. and
my owner friends horse wal tneatly
nipped a head on the wire, BIk busi-
ness In the stand then. SON. nought
sure some OF 'em that had gotdown
hook, line and sinker on thai 10
thing would set fire TO the star
AT dinner that night I met I own
er friend and handed $4,000 oyeto him
his original $1,000 and the s20Grd ia
ken In on his nipped l to thiI
Nice little stack, er, for pichgs or
one sprint said he, and he ped of
$500 for mine. Your bit said as he
handed 1t TO me. Yep, ! took HPret-
" fiabby, but I took IT, Cokience
didn't happen to be working lst al
that minute. Much obliged totu. al
that he went on. You're Alright
I'll probably be In the way OF hkine
couple Of dollars for you bee the
game shuts down here.
The Tempter Reappears
well. 1 went on making nlittle
round book for another couk oi
weeks, picking up my average oh0o q
day right along, until one day tlgane
lit on five straight favorites. al this
put a crimp in me and made rtner'
yous, as 1t pretty nigh wiped q my
profits and reduced my bank u tc
about It's original proportionsIb 900
That evening my OWL friend ga mt
the cordial backslap at dinner aIjtolt
me that he was going TO pull ( an
other dead and maugled fayorite tht
following day. Now 1 was nervd a:
! / say. over that wlpe-down wht the
five fayorites traipsed by flrst. I'd
concluded that I'd be In on thnpla,
myself the next day to the tune lth'
whole bundle II l could draw theoir
| In, for the dead easy fashion rtf
which I'd picked UP $4,000 for my tneI
| friend on that other preyiouslde
| ceased favorite surely had me a-@g
"'Yep. tomorrow's the day. saim!
owner pal I'm going to-emo
whisky with my flve-furlonger tor
row. Spose you noticed his manor
| the card?
Aren't you afraid of being ruleof
II YOU do that?' / asked him. Ia
| thing OF yours can beat anything 81
| here by a block at the distance
g" 'Ye-eh, but he's going TO be SIT
Tomorrow replied the owner. 'Yte
he hasn't been out In nearly x
weeks now. Bound TO be short q
help but be short See?'
Il saw.
"'And by the way he went or
didn't say anything about 1t to you.
l was rather sorry you didn't pp
/ yourself by what l told you the
| time. With your bank wad and
way the horse of mine was played.
| could have made a hot yank-in''
"'I was some sorry myself, aft
wards said I. But If It's a cinch q
YOUR trick won't get anything tom
row I'm going to be In on 1t myself
time
Sensible boy said he, How M
coin have you got?
'''Bout S16. .000,' said l.
"All right said he, IN tell >
| what you do. Just you lay the bigg
price In the ring. Go all the resi-
'em one point better all the time
matter what they lay-two or tn
points better. at that, II you want
lust to get the kale In. Itll be
largest watermclon-s -slicing you c
pulled off in your life. You needn't
aoin1 any leYIue for me this time