The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-07-23


knowed who he was. An the way !
win out was bein' too drunk to git my
porous plaster of. He done got my
loose change, but | win the main part
O. my own wad thataway."
We'll, that sho' is one way o. win
min" admitted the old man. 81 reckon
mebbe it's night bout the on'y way
they is TO- anybody is fool enough TO
TO set in with Dye Eye. Even at that
he'd be mo- n likely to a got yo'
'ntire wad II he'd "a knowed what yo
all was warm a plaster Didn't git
under it, did he?"
Nope. | done found ii all right
when | come up TO the hotel. Pears
they done put me asho' when they
found they couldn't wake me up"
"Yo' all sho was lucky" said the old
man, as if relieved of some anxiety as
to the strangers monetary standing
One Eyed 'a'had you roll il he'd "a
knowed. Even If yo d swallered it
he'd "a cut yo' open TO It, ruther n to
lose it. Yo 'pology s accepted an the
drinks is on me this time. Way I
understood first off was that yo' all
offended what yo' done win some O.
One Eyes money, an that can't be
did"
Joe BaSSett Disguised.
"Oh, shucks,' said Joe Bassett,
greatly disguised 81 reckoned we was
gwine to have some kynd of disturb
ance. never knowed the old man
take water like that afo''"
This was muttered rather than
spoken, as he came up to the bar with
the others in the room at the old mans
suggestion, but Jim Blaisdell heard 1t
and replied, also in an undertone:
Keep yo' shirt on, Joe. Mebbe yo'
II git to have some excitement later on.
The old man is on'y maxim a play TO-
to git this year zap into game.
D'pends on how much he dug up I'm
under his plaster"
1t soon appeared that Mr.. Blaisdell
had not erred, for when the stranger
returned the old mans compliment in
the way etiquet demanded, he show
ed stable wad, and the old mans
face lighted up considerably.
"Yo' all pears to been tellin' things
tol'able straight alter all" he said
quite casually. "Yo pears to have
somepin' left"
ooh, they's enough to git along on TO-
SPELL" said the stranger carelessly.
Il don't never reckon bein' broke
when I'm away I'm hum"
Leading Up TO a Game.
That's the best way" said the old
man with cordial approval. "Th' amt
never no tellin' when a man may have
need of stake 70 TO set in with, if
they's game anywhere's round.
well, s fur's that goes" said the
stranger "they's a'ays game
some'res round in Texas if they's
enough thar TO play"
Most gently it's that way most any
where's" said the old man, looking
around as if to count up the number
of persons in the room. AS Jake Win
terbottom and Sam Pearsall were
there he discovered five present be-
sides himeslf.
TOO bad tn amt mo- present" he
said, as il greatly disappointed Il don't
never play my own self as a genl
rule an five amt enough TO- six
handed game. They is them, though,
whatll play 500 ruthern to not be
dom nothin'.'
Don't never bother me none, not
doin' nothin', if they is drinks occas-
sional." said the stranger, as if entire
ly Indifferent.
THAT en- be did ek'ly as well into
the game" suggested the old man.
This yer's a public house and we
aims to please. TIL amt no eXtry
charge 70 totin' EN- in the back room
if they's p'ferred that way. en- fetch
'em to yo' while yo' play"
Then tn amt no ELECTIONS to
startin' five handed?" said the strang-
err Mebbe somebody II come In an
take a hand il they sees what they Is
somepin' dlddin'."
Others Willing to "Slt In"
90 co'se, if yo' all is hellbent onto
it, it can be did thataway," said the
old man. "Th' ant no law ag'ln five
playin' if they want to. reckon these
hyar gents II sit in"
They would and they did after the
old man had served another round and
placed the cards and chips on the big
table in the little back room.
Not for a long time had there been
a game in Arkansas City in which the
auspices had appeared more favorable
for the discontinue of visiting
stranger and the augmentation of the
floating capital of the community.
Placid assurance was manifest in the
demeanor Of the four gentlemen who
Joined in the effort to provide amuse-
ment for him, and each one of the four
seemed to find satisfaction in the con-
fldent expectation of cutting the comb
OF one who had shown himself so es-
sentially cocky as the big Texan had
certainly done.
1t was true that he had not followed
his defiant words with the violence OF
behavior that had seemed imminent,
nut even Bassett did not make the
mistake of attributing that to timidity'
1t was rather as II he was so well ac-
customed to trouble as to be entirely
Indifferent whether 1t came or not. Not
seeking it,\he did not, on the other
| hand seek to avoid 1t.
Stranger Shows Little Concern.
A similar unconcern as to conse-
uuences was manifest characteristic
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