The sun., 1910-08-14

/ One symptom uf this NAA his Alacrit,
"a calling for = second round Of drink
hetOr- the first he had ordered hal beer
| tkposeSl Of.
II cp"ro' h.. truly ssli thai old MAJ
Grs-i law objected to thks bat remember.
ing that Il would take - hong time 10 sell
81 lnO worth 81 rum. he wtnked ~ Winter
bottom. end Ihet worthy Immediately
introduced draw poker a. topic.
Mr. Hostetter, ~ appeared, wAs partial
Ia the game and entirely willing to JOIN
~ a sittiag provided his friend. whom h.
cnlled Beverly. should also participate
As this prov,Si To be- a manifest Imr"s-
sihility. owing to MIR Beverly's inabi.Itv
10 see III" cards the matter WAS compro-
mised by givir Z him chair near the poker
table, AMI after he was comfortably seated
h" promptly fell asleep.
The game was only four handed. as
Bassett himself was hardly In = condition
To make him "A desirable PLAYER. ard
rco,riIngly he staysi IN the outer room
With old man Greenlaw and also fell
asleep
The oil man. having no one else 20 talk
To, rubbed his hands ioyotIsly and said
20 himself This sho' does pear To he a
instance when all things works tOgetner
70 good ~ the Good Book Aays. Pears
like that leven hundred was comm this
way.
And again hls faith ~As justified. On
the very first round Mr.. Hostetter was
he hal bought 10 begin. and uncomplain-
rgly bought a second stack
Then he saw a RleAm Of hope. He hal
iealt the cards himself. and when he
picked mp hls hand fourd that he had
pat flush king high Blaisdsll had Anted
"a dollar. Pearrall had come in and Win
terbottom hal made IL s. to play. 80
Hoststter naturally made u SO
He was more than satisfied when the
next two came IN without raising. and not
seriously disturbed when Winterbottom
came back at him with ten more. figur-
ing that a flush was good for one NOR.
raIz. he made IL s2O more. expecting 10
s.'e the next two men drop
This Blaisdell did. but Pearsall stayed.
II seemed not unlikely that Wiuterbot-
matter Of winning. but IN getting as
much money IN the pot ss was desirable
Then Nintsrhottom made IL s2O more.
and Hostetter. thinking he had gone far
enough. saw the $50 without raising
Thereupon Pearsall remarked that he
r.Ckoncd he'd better have somepln' to
-ay and he put up $40
Nothing had been aid of "A limit and
HoStettsr knew enough Of the game 10
sse that he Vas liable TO go broke or win
large pot. hut reherting that u was his
own deal he calculated that his chance
with a flush WAS As good a. any he would
IT, likely TO get. and resolved Ia stay. and
this he did. against the double raise each
tune. until he had hs whole wad IN the
pot. making his contribution something
over 81 80
Beyond this he could not go. and when
Wnterbottom showed down fun house
and took the pot he seemed stunned for
a moment Then turning to Beverly he
rous..d him from his rlumber and asked
for the loan of some money
That gentleman S'raightensd up with
some difficulty and put his hand IN his
pocket readily enough Pulling out a
huge roll OF bills he said -Howmush-
wanti-
Gimme a thousand. said HostettsT.
and Beverly began counting ~ out Then.
looking around. he saw tn. cards and
chips and putting his money back ia his
pocket hs said good nAturedly enough.
No moref'r gam'lin Won lent Come
long have drink
And from this ha would not ba moved
though the others tired hard TO persuade
him Finally Hostetter arose and said.
Well ItE no Use Tn amt no movin'
Beverly when he gets notion reckon
W. uns Il b" goIn
Accordingly they left and old man
Grs"nlaw when he learned the facts
grew purple with rage
This all comes % Bassett swst;In
the gentleman unpvCked. he said. We
uns il liahl. 70 be ruined II he amt Curhed
some way
They calmed HIM somewhat by argu-
ing that the two would probably return
when Beverly got sober hu the t~o
strangers left town 10y the next morning
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