The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-16

Gus again.
Tive told you that is not going to
be a sprint for the Bean Bag Stakes
replied Glade. It's going to be over
the full cup route for the papers with
the M marks in the corners. If l drag
him down a goodsiZed bet, ten or twen-
ty thousand, on the first try-Out. he'll
want it all Once he gets the fin on the
real money from the other side of the
counter he'll be interested. The pony
game is new to him, and he wouldn't
believe that the real kale was slowed
away in dinky and dingy plant like
a pool room unless he got peek at
a nifty bunch of it. After he warns
up, I'll see that he puts on the weight
lifter's vest and gets strong.
Got your plant rugged up YETI in
quired the pool room man. the greed
again.
Nope. but I've got a room picked
out across the street. replied the wire
less Taper. You'd better peel me off
couple of hundred to fix up the phony
room-my tools are in hook
The First Touch.
THE pool room man skinned the two
hundred from his roll and passed it
over, and then Glade knew that there
was going to be something transpir-
ing.
ION the following morning Glade had
the fake instruments installed in the
room across the street and took May
hew there to look the dump over
III bring my Tiny Tim around to
your place this afternoon, said Glade.
and he'll have his check book along.
Say said the pool room man then,
a bit nervously cant you get the TOM
cod to make his bets in cash? He
might get sQueaky and stop payment
on checks
mo chance. replied Glade in his
off hand way. He's as safe as cy-
clone cellar. Besides, like all the shines
that have just come into the large
moneys. he's so stuck on his check
book that he scrawls checks when he
stakes himself to d bottle of pop or a
pack of cigarettes
And so Glade. got the pool room
man lulled.
"A short before the result of the
first race at Graveserd was due Eddie
Glade trickled into the pool room of
Jim Mayhem with the angel chappie.
And he was a chappie right.
He had pinkish mustache and baby
blue lamps and Il whit pink band
around his straw lid. His makeup was
of the kind. according to Glade, that
would have made him a horrid slap on
the elbow.
THE chappie seemed to be laboring
under great mental excitement as he
entered the pool room with Glade. and
he tugged awfully hard at his Wispy
nustache. Glade deposited him in Il
rocking chair in a corner Of the pool
room and then slid over to the counter
behind which the pool room proprietor
was waiting for him.
Its a shame to do it, hey? said
Glade. grinning and jerking his tunb in
the direction of the boy with the chap
pie rig.
"'Oh. he won't miss it, replied May
hew. easy in his mind about things by
this time Somebody 'ud be taking it
away from him soon, anyhow, and we
might just as we'll take the first PUNK
from the taW-line.'
well. they'll be at the post in a
minute or So said Glade. and I'll hike
him over to my phOny room and go
through the motions of getting the
Gravcsend winner for him ahead Of
time.
Then Glade hustled over to the cor
ner and got the chappie out of the
rocking chair and hiked him over to the
room across the street where he had
the phony instrument fixed in, the pool
wink as Glade went out of the door
with the goSling.
The Trick Pulled Off.
when Glade knew that the result of
the first GraVcsend race was about due
he slammed into the pool room with
the chappie following on his heels.
Glade slipped over to the counter again.
and again Mayhem was waiting for
him.
Its in, whispered the pool room
man to Glade. and he named the even
money favOrte that had won the race.
".Here's the Holsters check for fif-
teen thousand said Glade. handing the
pool room man d duly madeout check
for $4,000 on a ST. Louis national
bank L had to let him make the
check out over the way to get away
with it. | told him | had the winner.
but that | couldn't hand it to him until
he gave me an evidence Of good faith
and showed that he was game. Then
he wrote the check. He'll take the
harpoon after he drags down this try
out bet.
The pool room man glanced at the
check only in a casual sort of way, for