St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-09-11

| POCKET silver dealing box such as II
used at faro bank, and a deck of regu
| lation. cards. He then proceeded tt
show the astonished mining man some
wonderful feats in the way of shuf1ing
up hands and seemed to be able to
get any card he wanted from any part
OF the deck at hand. The major had
played some card games in his time
but admitted that he had never seen
anything like this before.
"All you've got to do" explained
Cleland, sis to go to your bank and
get $4,000 in cash. The rule of the
game is that any one who plays that
much against the game can have the
limit taken off. You wouldn't need
this much, but the lookout would see
there was something wrong if you
didn't change in that much and would
put Floyd wise. All you will have to
do is to play the first deal carefully.
Watch the first three cards that come
out of the box on the first deal and
the order in which they come. These
three will be the last three in the
second deal. You can copper the los
ing card, play the winner and whip
saw the turn. You also can call the
turn, which pays four for one, and
clean out the bank roll with a $4,000
play"
A wish to get even, coupled with
cupidity, made Maj. Skinner an easv
victim to the Turing proposition of the
seemingly honest and persuasive Gle
land. 1t was arranged that the play
should be made that afternoon. The
major procured Ehe necessary money
from the bank and once more sur
prised the few players at the bank
when he entered and called for five
stacks of chips at $4,000 a stack. He
followed the instructions of CleIana
to the letter. The first three cards
out of the box on the first deal were
king, eight, seven. He played with
care and caution through that deal and
The next with about even luck. When
It came time to make the final coun
ne remembered that he was to conner
he seven. play the eight to win and
'al1 the turn .seyen-eight, according
% Cleland's instruction. So far he
vas $1,000 winner and without mo-
nent's hesitation he placed $4,000 on
he seven coppered to lose. A like
was placed upon the eight to |
win. The odds against the call was
our to one and he called the turn for
5000, confident that he was about to
vim small fortune.
There was a moment of breathIess
Hence. The other players had for.
often their own bets in watching the
Ugh play of the mining man. Then
leland dealt-not seyen-eight, as the
called for, but EIGHT.
even, as Cleland had intended n
hould be.
Maj. Skinner was almost faintiro
S he saw his money fade away and
oted saturnine smile pass across
ne features of the dealer. Then he
woke to the realization that he had
layed the old sucker game of taking
ne best of it, in card game. Ha
ould do nothing. Any ATTEMPT he
light make at redress through the
Nv would show him up as having
with the dealer to win the
ackers money. He arose, wiped his
ersplrlng brow and stalked from tha
pom without bidding the others good.
ay. ~
Floyd and Cleland were back In +ho
otel at Los Angeles from whence
icy had started on their trip to tbe
ming camps. Floyd had sent for
ommy Jackson and explained to him
at ne was to go to Goldfield and ra
zen the offices of the shawlnaoI
ming Company and prepare to again
art work in the shaft.
We are going back east to.n;ght :
said when he had finished his ~
ructlons. There is little nrasent
re from Maj. Skinner to Mrs Jaol
n. There is $4,000 in the enve1ona
We 1t to her and tell her that M
vice is to keep it In the bank on
the other fellow buy mining s+ans I
tn his money. ''ocA Q
Copyright, 1909, by w. G. Chann,a
copyright in Great Britain