Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-06-09
~ Gamblers Throw
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He remembered the clothes in which
| Williams a arrived. Too niitlly cut,
they had been. Blue, pin-checked and
with slanting pockets. The man was
always in%terupting his solitaire with
| his silly blither about Chicago and
the grain market.
He wondered il Williams knew how
he hated him. If this soul-destroying
tension IA not lessened. he, HAM
ilton, might be driven to doing some
thing about it. He carefully placed
a red seven upon a black eight.
Martin, now. He pouted. His whole
face pOuted, black eyes, Roman nose,
thin pink lips; they all pouted. His
silence and moroseness was almost as
irritating as Williams u~nquenchable
%garrulity. Extremes, mid all this
heat, were bad. If the mans eyes
would not swivel around the room sol
Those slightly popped eyes distracted
HamiltOn's attention from his solit-
aire and caused him 10 make a
perating blunders. He wondered
| whether Martin would stop looking
like that If one asked him to desist.
or would he just sit there in stony
silence and stare? Hamilton stole a
glance at him and he felt his nerve
ends prikle. Yes, still staring.
The girl was a plucky one. Not his
type, perhaps, hut he was conscious
of a distinct admiration for the way
she was holding her against the
weather and the men. When she had
first arrived. Hamilton had thot she
would break down. She had eaten
little. The vivid ,coloring faded out
Of her smooth cheeks. She spent
much of her time in her W room.
When she emerged. her eyes were
suspiciously pink. But she HAD seemed
to gather strength with the passing
Of time. No doubt she had been fore
ed to, for with every new day the
men had become more ardent in the
attentions. II HAD been diverting,
watching her handle them.
Strangely enough, Hamilton did not
resent Lucci. OF all the men on the
heat-raddled island, Lucci was alone
in remaining true to type. He looked,
thot, talked and acted like One-shot
Lucci, gangster chief. Hamilton had
been gratified when. hat evening at
dinner. he had discovered that the
gangster, too, was in love with the
girl Nancy.
He had liked the way Lucci had
parted Nancy's look of scorn when
the gangster had informed the en-
tire assemblage that the girl would
henceforth be regarded as his on pain
Of instant and brutal punishment.
Williams had flushed fur
Martin had looked at Lucci
with eyes like those OF a rattle snake.
Yes, little fear of going mad with
all these to watch. He shuffled the
pack and dealt the cards into a met
.ioulously straight line. 1t occurred to
him that he was already. perhaps, a
mad. Well, it didn't matter.
The others were mad, too.
He wondered why their captors had
allowed things to come to such a
pass. Suave, impersonal guards. Ex-
cellent foods. wines and liquors. Well
chosen ~wardrobes at the disposal of
The guests who had come ill-prepared
an extended stay. The rooms were
comfortable enough in this rambling
lne-story structure which had so APP |
oarently been erected for the very
purpose of entertaining guests" to
10 as they choose, so long as no
opportunity was given them to es-
ape. Hamilton hazarded a guess that
he guards would not even interfere
n a Fighter a murder. Well, he
would soon know. He looked at his
Only eight O'Clock.
Thru the open windows came the
hum of al airplane motor.
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