The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-16

knowed they was others at the table
what was liable To- to catch 'em at II.
90 90 30 he was lookln TO to win
out. A man al'ays docs when ne sets In
or he wouldn't be fool enough TO TO
play. but they hadn't been playin
hellova while afo' Harold Hopper seen
what somepin was gon' agln him
strong, an 'peared like 'twa'n't alto.
gether the luck.
"He hel. good guards I'm time to time
an he done tol'able well in the draw
when he stayed in on the chanst % bet
term. but either he'd he outhelt or they
wouldn't nobody stay in agin hiri 50
he didn't make no winnn's to speak OF
even when he rakcd the pot. an when
he didn't he'd lose c'nsid'able. kep IN
that away till IL begin to look mysterious
to him till bimeby he come to he mo r
less Suspicious.
He'd done been watchin' out sharp,
from the time he set in. an he didn't
spicion no holdin' out. nor no crooked
dealin'. bcin's he knowed they want
nobody at the table what was enough
Of a expert to start anythin' u that
kynd. KNOWN what Harold Hopper
was liable TO to blow their hads off
IL Nil'N NdN w ~ ~ iiii' ''''' - ''r''N'''
man, like | done said afo'.
But from the way things was goin'
into the game peared To him like some
thin sho was wrong, an the mo he
studied the mo mysterious peared like
twas till bineby he knowed II.
Come Jackpot, an he set to the
dealers right, not havin no gret
show 'cordin' to p'sition, but he sees
when he picks up his guards how he's
done got aces up, so just nachully,
when it's opened afo' 1t gets to him,
an they is only one man in, he rose
1t an the dealer stays.
Then the opener gives it other
boost, shown he's got better'n two
pair seein how they is two agin him
on the first raise an Harold Hopper
trails. sayin' to hisself what the chanst
in the draw is with stayln' 70, an the
dealer stays along.
well. the opener takes two guards
! an Harold Hopper he takes one. an the
dealer helps hlsse,f to two. so Harold
Hopper sees how they both has threes.
but when he looks at his draw he sees
how he's done got Il ace.
THE opener chips chip an Harold
Ii'HpFI klNfS IL ~ GfUNlf bbpSl, ubDlI
TO c'nsid'able profits. but the others
both lays down. the opener shown
three kings TO his op'nin' hand. Pears
like he was some keerless. bein's two
was enough but 1t sot Harold Hopper
studyin' ag'u.
"IIe seen how they was somepin'
wrong TO sho', but he says to hisself
how he's hornswosgled II he knows what
It's, till he happens to look at the guards
what he's done throwed on the table
face down when he done raked the pot.
Then he sees what three on EN- has
all got little marks on 'em what's just
| alike. an ne knows o. 'cose what them
there was his three aces. An he knows
what they wouldn't neither one % the
| others what was in ha' laid down threes
ag'in n small raise firm one cyard
| draw thouten they'd "A knowed what
he done had
| Way | look at 1t is what them cir
| cumstan'S Sho' was pcooliar. like | done
said. an me question Is what did he
| ought 10 did? Yo' uns is all some ex-
per-, an put 1t 10 yo' 70 a opinion"
l. was plain from the self satisfied
air with which he looked around
| al the four men who had listened Ia
the story with close attention that he
felt assured Of having propounded O
| puzzling problem. AS to the others. /,
was equally plain that they regarded II
as serious question, hardly TO be
answered offhand.
Basseit was the first to speak. though
he deliberatcd n while first
II shd say" he remarked. what they
was Considerable dcpcndin' on what kyind
| o. men them others was Bein's they
was TO on 'em aEin him, the odds was
some heavy, but II he was a sho 'nougl
fightin man, Ike yo' all says. / reckon
he mought "a got away with IL II he
was To draw with one hand an rake
everything they was on the table with
t'other."
They was all on EN- fightin' men,
said the old man, laconically.
Then | reckon he mought not "a
got away with the money" said Bassett
respectfully, but that's what I'd "a did
anyway. He'd "a had a rattlln' good
fight To- his wad, an fights wutl
Considerable"
"Not II yo'rc Sho' to git licked. faint
said Pcarsall 81 reckon about the hes
thing fo' "A man to do In a case lik,
that d he TO to call To- "A new deck
He cd easy make sho' they was regla
afo' playn' with 'em, an if he KEEP hi
eye skinned they couldn't nobod.
mark 'cm while they was playin
thOuten him gettin' onto IT,
Then Il he was any kind Of a player
he'd he liable to win back what he don
lose an give 'em some of swat 70
good measure. But that" he adde,
doubtfuly, would dpend some on hoy
good he was. II he didn', feel ekl L
1t, don't see nothin' better TO hin
to do, only TO- to cash in what chip!
he has left an quit the game"
! Harold Hopper want no gutter.
, observed the old man. Evidently ther,
was nothing to be gained by pushinl
| this suggestion any further and tn,
others continued smoking for a time
He didn't call TO no new deck
J neither" said the old man. after
pause. They could see that he took
| malicious pleasure In making the prob
lem as difficult as he could.
, "Sposin we goes over this careful
suggested Winterbottom. They,
ought TO to he way outer anythin
If man knows enough.
"Yo' all says this here Hopper per
son sot into "A game an lose. Bimeb,
he sees what the guards is marked. II,
don't start no fight He don't cal
TO no fresh deck nor he don't quit tn,