The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1910-07-09

ance. sub. with yoh poh father when
he came aboard at New Orleans. He
confided to every one that he had sold
his sugar crop fob ten thousand and
had the cash with him, and he was
In mighty high spirits because he was
on his way back home to see his chill
dren. Poh gentleman! AS delicately
as | can | must state that he was not
quite himself. and by that. sub. | mean
that he had been imbibng little too
freely. don't have to tell yoh. suh,'
that there are certain characters on all
the big boats who keep a pretty sharp
lookout foh gentlemen with money who
are in the condition yoh poh father.
sub. was In tonight, and ! expect there
was more than one river gambler on
board who would have liked to get his
hands on Mr. Randall. But the one
who got him was the sickest and clev-
crest of the lot the Cameo Kirby
whom | have mentioned. This rascal,
sub. inveigled yoh poh father into a
private stateroom. piled him with mob
liquor and won from him not only all
his money and personal effects-even
including miniature of yoh dead
mother, suh-but also deed to his en-
tire plantation and all his slaves. every
thing which he owned. was too late
to save Mr. Randall. but knew Kirby
by repute, and l was so screamingly
outraged by the whole affair that de-
nounced him fob the low scoundrel
he was. Thereupon he drew on me, bu.
| was the quicker and shot him down
| like a dog. They carried him ashore,
sub. at the landing below this, and the
river is cleaner fob his death"
you have taken vengeance out of
! my hands," said young Randall un-
steadily. THE coward and villain!
For stranger. sir. the attitude which
you have displayed toward my family
has been most considerate. and will
never forget it. The-the hospitality of
a house in mourning
"No, no, my boy" interrupted Mo-
reau. again employing his fatherly
hand 81 am sensible of the honor,
but couldn't think of It. This is a
\ llHlt Wntu yum uli nuot Wion W sbS
alone, and business calls me north. |
merely stepped ashore In yoh interests
as any gentleman would have done.
There goes the bell. and | must run
for It. Honored. sub. to have made
yoh acquaintance. though Of co'se i
deeply deplore the necessity which oc-
casioned it. will venture to pay my
respects to yoh family when return
south, and pray command me In any
occasion yoh may have. Yoh servant,
suh." And with magnificent bow
the colonel turned and raced for the
gangpank. boarding the Shotwe!l with
leap that shamed his fifty odd years.
Meanwhile Cameo Kirby, a bullet
through his right lung. was making a
desperate battle against death. fight
ing for the life which he had consid-
cred little better than worthless. In
his efforts he was materially assisted
\ by the crude but faithful Bunce, his
gambling partner. with whom he had
played up and down the Mississippi
for years. For two weeks this com
bat ragged. Kirby lowering between life
and death. but at the end he emerged
triumphant as, over the gaming table
when the odds were as heavily against
him. he had emerged from many q
hotly contested conflict.
To those who judged Kirby's charac
ter from the evil reports which GOSSIP
had spread concerning him and to 9th
ers who, In their righteous ignorance
considered all gamblers legitimate chill
dren of the devil his remarkable re
. covery would have been accepted mere
ly as another proof that the evil ont
, favors his own, that the mills of tn,
gods grind slowly, that justice Is blint
/, and that scoundrel is difficult to kill
together with many similar ancien
and redoubtable maxims which igno
rance and self righteousness love t