The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1913-05-14

removed his clay pipe to ex-
- claim, cheerfully:
"B-zoo gentsl Where's my pro-
tege?"
81 don't know. Where did you have
it last?"
81 mean Speed, my trainin' partner.
That's French word"
"Oh! We just left him."
Think I'll hunt him up"
wait a minute" Willie came for
ward. Lets talk"
"All right. Well visit. Let her go,
professor"
you've been handlin' him for quite
a spell, haven't you?"
Sure! It's my trainin' that put him
where he is. Ask him If it amt"
Then he's a good athlete, is he?"
as he good? HUH" Glass grunted,
expressively.
How fast can he do a hundred
yards?"
Larry yawned as if this converse
ton bored him.
t-eight-seconds."
At this amazing declaration Willie
paused, as if to thoroughly digest it.
Eight seconds!" repeated the lit
tie man at length.
Sure! Depends on how he feels, of
| course"
Berkeley Fresno, in the corner,
snickered audibly, at which the trainer
scowled at him.
Think he can't do it, Ell? Well,
he's there four ways from the ace."
Seeing no evidence that his state
ment failed to carry conviction in 9TH
er quarters at least, Glass went furth-
er. 1t was so easy to string these
supplemented people that he could
not resist the temptation.
Didn't you never hear about the
KILN he made at Saratoga" he
queried.
Willie started, and his hand crept
slowly backward along his belt. kill
in! Is that his gamer"
Now, get me right" explained the
former speaker HE breaks trainin'
and goes up to Saratoga for little
rest. While he's there he wins eight
thousand dollars playin' diabolo."
"Playin' what?" queried Slower.
"Diabolo! He backs himself, of
course"
Glass took an imaginary spool from
his pocket, spun it by means of an
imaginary string then sent it aloft and
pretended to catch it dexterously. The
cowboys watched him with grave, I'M
compromising eyes.
He starts with case five and runs
it up to eight thousand dollars, that's
ALL"
Slower uttered an exclamation of
establishment, whereupon the New
Yorker grew even holder.
THE next week he hops over to Bar
Harbor and wins the futurity ping
pong stakes from scratch. That's
worth twenty thousand if it's worth a
lead nickel. Oh, guess he's there, all
right" He searched out match and
relighted his pipe.
IL suppose he's a great croquet play
er, too" observed Fresno, whose face
was purple.
"Sure!" Glass winked at him, glad
to see that the Californian enjoyed
this kind of sport.
I'VE don't care nothin about his
skill at sleight-of-hand tricks" said
the man in spectacles, seriously. "And
we wouldn't hold his croquet habits
agin him. Some men drink, some
gamble, some do worse; every man
has his weakness, and croquet may be
his. What we want to know is this:
Can he win our monograph"
"Surest thing you know!"
"Then you vouch for him, do your"
Willie's eyes were bent upon the fat
man with a look of searching gravity
that warned Glass not to temporize.
with my life." exclaimed the train
er.
you're on!" said the cowboy, with
unexpected grimness.
What d you mean?'
But before the other could explain,
Berkeley Fresno, who had sunk weak
ly into a chair at Larry's extravagant
praise of his rival, afforded a diver
blOu lnc tShoi hdu icahOu ooSh' S~H
vulsed with enjoyment when, losing
his balance, he came to the floor with
a crash. The sudden sound brought
a terrifying result, for with startled
cry the understood cowman leaped as
II touched by living flame. Like a
fash of light he whirled and poised on
his toes, his long, eyil-looking revolver
drawn and cooked. his tense face vul-
turelike and fierce. His eyes glared
through his spectacles. his hvid fea-
lures worked as IL at the sound OF his
own death-call. His whole frame was
tense; galvanic current had trans
formed him. His weapon darted to-
ward the SPOT whence the noise bad