Show I WiFE HELD AT Chicago Inter Ocean talk in the mess having rUn through campaign and woman stories had turned tt earth stories The senior major leaned toward the lire and knocked the aches from fda pipe the andiron The queerest bit of I over oversaw saw he said was played by a we nian Site was the of little Bill Stuyvesant You remember Bill the atel In IV The nodded He was with Rena at the Custer ho I met him the neXt Week He resigned afterward and vent into business the one was mighty connected In New York but lie have much cash If It lila poker playing lie never Could have kept tue pace he He lived bettor than any other con fri the regiment He pat up one of the neatest games Ive lied the bad Inch to mix up und steady but with warmth to it to rush his to a when the tine came Well one day old Bill rent oft anti got all of a sudden to the Urn most blushing little of a country girl you I his famIly raised the devil but It matter Bill and the wee one settled down at the post and as happy as if she were a en Something or Other or lie were a Farmer Jones Bill though never letup a hole on poker but was honest about It with his wife The game ran In his house and she sat watched until bedtime At first she worried a good deal I think made everybody feel too to have lien about But after a she perked up and we got to her if she sitting there thereby by the lire sowing or reading ev else ever Bills his and fool Meets Bride at House Party About a year after they were mar ned Bill and she wont on The family wanted to patch up 1 started for New York it later myself and soon after I hit that town a chap Broekman naked ne up the Hudson to a house party When I arrived who the deuce I there but EJI Stuyvesant and his frau Sho was pretty an ever but justs shy and tImid She to he having a very thrilling time in society I felt right sorry for the little thing She anti had Just arrived aini at I noticed the curioUs lug that were to them hoh The poor sat dumb Bill looked mad and drank too much about the birch somehow the talk turned on cards There were a couple of hard faced matrons there that I sized up as human sharks from the start They led the pack in card movement and they never the scent until they had it fixed that the ten of us should make two tables of after dinner Mrs tried to be oft be she play hut the human sharks insisted on teachIng and many mean at country bredin and Bills poverty that at last Bill himself So after the I found at a table with and Mrs Bill the two rite short The wrote out a list of for tr Stuyvesant to use told her lb rules few pitiful 1 T was clean Bill 4 is outrage he heu If you can It was a no too 3 rg ton td khIn t Mrs saw thit ive afraid of her and jc away her chips In Throws Down Winning Hand One or twice she sure ning handa face up on tue to bet The human sharks were giggling and gobbling up chips Bill was losing I wes about even Then somebody started a all around It was sweetened a 1 chip for fIve duals running That put 5 mit Then one of the sharps Opened It for the size cm Mrs desti The other shark stayed I So did Bill BillI I looked at Mrs S She was vary exalted eyes were snapping was hr list of hands Oh Lio cried I I know I I kilets Cant I ask Billie No snapped Shark Number One I Oh Mrs S thou I must and she shoved out worth of Bill turned white I shook in boots Shunk Number One ouch scowled Then she pushed 7 Number Two cropped it nasty little worth Number One two earths Mrs Bill put clenn tho peck How ninny the dealer take cracked Number Quo QuoI I I Oh I dont want any an Bill Bill sighed contentedly Tins bet 51 The pet now contained ons Dear me cried Mrs Bill I want to bet Bill lend uie and shoved out the table and back with the imploring mutely the shark to come on That lady looked at her cards and frowned Not this tinto she If want to bet when you have YOU to bet some sometimes times you luave id than a straight flush Take the pot Three kIngs openers Game of Successful Bluff 4 Oh oh cried anti I was call too all threw the four seven and nine of the hearts anti the ace of spades I thought be fooled she went on naively be Id been so careful before confessed to me that lie nearly died disease right on th e spot I was happy to I I 55 watching the human How did you do it I 1 admiringly when the play started again Mr In her g way I Oh she softly I haven t Iii for grew faster Mrs costant a little holder She won on thu holding the lead that that jack had given her 1 stIll kept even The won Bill lOst At last night was over Tue dawn paled the yellow lamplight and gave A sI kly color to our faces as we at about the table was more titan behind when they started 1 bunch of 20 jacks to close the game The first two slid off enough the of the hard faced inn trans Then caine a brute to open sYo it until It hind Li hundred and fifty in It flat Mrs cracked it under the guns for forthe the size Bill stayed So did Shark Number Then Number Two boosted it two Mrs Stuyvesant Stays l dropped threw my on the table Mrs Stuyvesant stayed Bill dropped Tim oilier shark and then shoved in her little stack That made the neat total of drew two cards t Ono and her running 1 the latter lady closely After skinning back her draw movel liar toward a little stand ky bet sid anti with elegant care swept oft on floor a high highball ball thit just been brought lien the crush of glass we all by As I did so I ovet a pile of chips anti that drOw mr to the cloth before me Instead of to the floor where every Em else looking I owing to fact that I saw Inger rest quickly on iii one of the discarded deftly under a ico In Instant more the bit of into tue hand of Number Tire Tv fIrs Instinct to 1 forward hut a quick nervous little my arm I hooked dOWIl It Ivan Stuyvesant Please be still she What did she Surely she bath not I saw I took out outa a and scribbled en It as as i could Site stole from the Then I it in front of MIS Bill and borrow tag my wrote I know It was rev tonof 1 the in my rs this Innocent up to any anyhOw hOw bet Iwo Shark Num bor One called saw such out a pile of yellow chips Mrs S Raises 1000 1 raIse you five hundred she saId coldly Stuyvesant an In InEn En nt I f see she answered with a look in her eyes and 1 go you tine better I am shy that lIke a drowning I felt as if I were going under fire the first time threw down her cards Number Two a hard little laugh She unshed 2000 worth of chips her And a she said 4 AntI two thousand came with a tremble of desperation from Mrs vb wore all leaning tiring with the of death The other table had broken mi anti the over DU Number Tire throw book her lips un liar teeth showed like an angry eats I call she said I have four toni down her cards and for the chips mutt back backlU lU hiM like a lek old man 1 Not good in Mrs shin threw eu the table eli Yes But tho thing heI bad myself die carded the quon of |