The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-25


poker sure IS the best IN thu world
reckon you've done bsey3 that"
Yes. I've heerd IT," said Brady
sneeringly, AN 7 done como here TO
find out if it's So
Thereupou Haw hns. without further
ado. proposed that they 90 to Quinn
bys forthwith, and they started. No
sooner had they left the house. how
ever, than darby who was III jake
Wiuterbotton's pay. though osttnsibiy
an cmploye at the tavern. FASTENED
over to old man Greenhut's with a
faithful report Of the converse ton.
Reached for Their Guns.
For some moments after he had fin
ished his recital there was silence in
the saloon. but &c was noticeable that
the temperature rose so suddenly that
old man Greenhut assumed an apo
pectic appearance. while Joe Bassetts
hand dropped toward his hip pocket.
and BlaisdelI. Pearsall and WinterbOt-
tom fdseted or their chairs as if
about TO go somewhere.
The old man, noticing presently that
they all seemed waiting for him to
speak first. opened his mouth. but no
words came Immediately. He looked
twice and thrice toward the corner
where his trusty bungstarter stood, but
shook his head and turned away. Fl
nally he said:
This here sure is what the Scripter
calls takin' the bread Outen tine mouths
o. widders an fatherless. Leastways.
there amt no widders mixed up into
it.. but Blaisdelrs old mans been dead
some years. an he's fatherless.
Pears like the Judgment o. heaven s
lible fer 10 fall on Arkansas City. same
s il did onto SOdOm, bein' there want
no ten righteous men in town. Countiu'
the hull on us. there's oH'y five, an
what we'd do case Of a census bein'
took beats me Somepin's got to be did
for to fetch Hank Hawkins TO q sense
o. his Shortcomings but that amt the
fust thing TO be considered.
Here's this here stranger come to
town, mOre'n likely with d wad. lookin'
FIR the proper place for to put it. an
Hank Hawkins interferes with the do
ms O. Providence most outra geOus.
Either he'll go to Quimbys an do up
them amachures, sO's't he'll get a slice
O. fioatin' capital away I'm Arkansas
City, r else he'll get did up an we
won't get no benefit from il.
Either way it's up to US for to take
a hand in the game somehow. / don't
take no stock i'm the idea o. playin' in
Quimby's. not as a rule. 1 don't, but
looks to me like it'd be a sin TO balk,
this here chap what wants to play with
jim, an : longs he didn't come here
1 reckon Jim had best go over there an
set in.
That is, if Quimby don't bar him out,
what he's lTble for to do. If he does
then we've got to get at it some other
way.
Stranger Was Clever.
Inside of half an hour BlaisdeH re-
turned in towering rage. Not only
had he been barred from the game, bat
in the few minutes that ne had tarried
looking over the play he had convinced
himself that the stranger was an ex-
pert who could be relied upon to do up
the Quimby crowd.
AN we mought ha' had his wad.
ony f'r that fool Hawkins buttin' in
like he done" said the disappointed
one. Il seen enough to show me what
his game is. an / en- double discount
him at it."
Shows how mysterious Providence is
wOrkin' meracles." said old man Green
hut cheerfully "AlIs we uns is got to
do is to let this yap clean up the quinn
by gang an then lay for him after
That way we en- 'Cumulate ais he's
brUng to town with him, an Quimby's
wad, too"
This comforting thought sustained the
old man and his friends over night. but
the next day they learned to their
amazement that Quimby and one of his
henchmen had worked the double-cross
on Brady so effectually later in the
evening that they had wiped him out
as d factor in the game. and that he
had borrowed money to get out of town
with.
Looks like this was one o. them sit
nations where draw poker amt the on'v
dependence O. them that folders after
righteousness. said old man Greenhut.
after long and painful thought. I've
aIays said that it was the most pre-
ciOus inheritance O. mankind. but pears
like faint much good when YOU don't
get no chanst o. playin' it.
"Bein' as we amt got no chanel o.
playin' it this time it's UP to Us for to
get that wad some other way. Bassett.
you so over an arrest Quimby an
bring him afore me. You're the sheriff.
an If he won't come peaceable. YOU en-
get a posse together"
Hell come peaceable enough il 7 go
after him said Bassett. erimlv. ..b1It
what u ] charge agin him when 7 fetch
him here? You can't hold him fr plav-
in draw poker. even if you be a Justice
o. tn peace"
Wen said the old man. Il en- hold
him on a charge o. takiu' money On
false pTetcnses. Want this here strau-
ger led to believe he was plavin' ag'in
the best game i'm Arkansas Citv2 An
amt that false pretenses? 7 reckon
there's good enough case ag'in Quinn
by for TO make him divvy up ON the
strangers Wad. anyway"
And. as the event proved. Ouimbv
preferred to settle that way rather Than
stand committed to jail TO await trial.
Its a queer world said old man
Greenhut. after he had accepted the set
uenent, but somehow or other il most
gently turns out. like the Good Book
says. what all things works together for
good to them what fears the Lore.
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