Show r Wis C ew Beaten k 1 Had Outlaw With a Big Price on Eis Head in the Poker Game But They Lost Everything Chicago Inter Oc an anO LD MAN GREENHUT stood by bythe bythe OLD O the door doo of his saloon one even evening Ing discontentedly out ard So far as could be seen by any Gre else there was nothing in view for h bm m to be looking at and it seemed likel likely that his unrest pro ceded from within He had been smoking ing ng a fat black cigar elgar but the lire fire had gone bone out when there was nothIng more than n short butt left and this he held between his teeth biting it vie vIc vIciously from timp timo to time as a if discon discontent discontented tent tented d even cven with that After looking out for tor a ling time In silence e he turned back and looked around the room The usual cluster of barroom loungers sat there waiting fore something to happ n and he re regarded them with scant favor faor It Its s Sr med emed as it If they Uley were ere expecting some frt Ert of reproof for not a man Inan among amon them met his eye Each one busied himself with his own tobacco as dilI gently as it If there had teen nothing else tr to dO dOThe o The rhe good book says s saId the old man after a time that fools butt tn n here angels Is o th the game an Im if I dout dont thing sometimes t maybe Its so Leastways s ns Its ot of n a compliment to a aman aman man to c ll li him a fool when the cir circumstances circUmstances indicate as a how he got bot the th intelligence ence ts necessary for to the part You can call a piece e putty a fool Similar there is men you cant call fools houten you want to flatter em An the kind t butts In There Is times said Toe Joe Bassett when its for a man to take II a hand hami in the game even cen If lie be aint up to the table Old man Greenhut looked at the sher liT ht a long IonS time before answering It was vas plain that conflicting emotions ere rere struggling for supremacy Final Finally ly his head bead more In sorrow tian anger and said There aint nobody Toe Joe ready t give you Jou more credit n I be There Is times like you sa say goin oln t deny it But similar Joe theres other times Dont the good book say y Theres a time to come in an a time timeto tu to lay down If ony take draw poker for tor an illustration when you goes to study Intricate questions o 0 social science oud git a better noU notion n o things But your dispositions hasty Toe Joe hast hasty Now Non theres times for belo bein hasty I one go goin In to counsel you to be deliberate when the other fel krs goin to draw One o the est ert thIngs I ever seen Was wh when n you ou n a hole in that Cape Girardeau feller Eller that was a knife the other day daJ hootIn fm your pocket the wa way you did lakin time to draw T Taint to be about a abole ahole hole bole in your Jour coat when youre liable to get a hole in your skin Au An Arkansas City knows well enough JOE as how youre oure th quickest man on the trigger in these parts Taint likely t ever eer been sherIff on ony for that Maybe I WaS a mite hasty Toe Joe when I was just now about them that butts in when t better be out on the the river run b by Maybe tWant ree reely called for to make no 51 h observations as I was makin v but own up Toe Joe it sure were as ag agg g to see that yap Jap fm up in the th Ozarks get out o 0 the house wIth In good mone money In hill kIck Taint likely t I n goin to stand standby standby by an see no stranger set et at a poker table In this an two kings u ul his sleeve n me harm some rin to o say said Joe Bassett Basett dogged doggedly 1 ly Well WeB now Toe Joe look at It reasonable LowIn you did dicI see two to go up the mans sleeve That aint to 58 say t there theore aInt no aces in the pack now Is it An Jake are an S Sam Pearsall in the game oame to sa say o 0 Toe Joe Peters and Jim Billings Pears like If you ou seen a tl ng so quick just comin Into the room Toom moren like likely ly lv h ve some notion o 0 what vas as gem on settin at the table with the feller An it if they seen it an what the they was up against aint It to be reckoned as how well what to do You sure was hast hasty Toe Joe You re was Well ou look to see me stand b by an see no galoot tm fm Ui thO j Ozarks nor else holdin out kings an not say returned the sheriff with a sort of 1 it air Old Man Gre Greenhut nhut was still concilia conciliator conciliatory tor tory It had Imd been evident for some time past that Bassett was becoming restive a at t the older mans habit of speech so there was some need of diplomacy and Greenhut realized It ItI r I reckon youre oure right about that thatTo Joe To he said pleasantly enough but that aint to say as its necessary to pIck a man up with in his pocket an throw him through the window windo Theres milder wa ways s o up a ar as ha been tried for fora a spell I never ld Id hold with throw in good money out o the window did is did saId Jak Win brooking into the discus discussion sion ut Joe seen his dut duty er r he thought he did an he done It There aint no use about it that aint gout to bring that back Into the game hats t l be did today Is 18 to git hold bold o 0 that yap agin an anee 4 oe ee whether hes bes lost his for ra poker Pears to me like it ha been bumped him when he struck the ground Bassett grimly Well maybe an maybe mabe not said Taint Tain t alaways easy casy to root out n a reel love for poker Pvc Ive men to give gie up liquor an even een tobacco but its as a aman roan man swears off of on poker an sta stays s swore The reel question is what sort sorto o 0 shape was he In when he was pIcked up He want pIcked said Sam ul I went out an looked soon is as Joe had him out It ml might ht be necessary to reason with him case he should be o 0 corn com comIn cornin In back But he W want nt Alls AUs I seen of hIm was as a indistinct shape it up the hotel He need no up upWell Well Weil tOO Is money th these times said sald dId roan man Greenhut an all pears to me Toe Joe It be vuth while for you to take a trip up the rIver for a couple o days Taint likely t he cn be fetched back here ho he knows you aint liable tO drop In unexpectedlY agin like you did lust last night It If he be knows youre out o town maybe he be The sheriff sherif evidently was not over pleased with the proposition A game gamet t like this he saId Is sure to end up In a gun play an there thore aInt no part o my official duties as has to be tended to more strict n ii that to tolIe lIe He was finally persuaded however md was sent out as a committee of one to recover the yap Find out his name said old man Greenhut as the committee started Its awkard sometimes havia to do with a I man as you dont know who be beIs ISo Is And said he would It was considerably more mort than an hour when he returned and when he did Toe BliSsett had gone Jone away Whores Wheres the sheriff sherif asked Winter bottom l looking anxiously around the room as an he entered I Hes done took the train tr fr Rock flock said That Wa Was part of the layout you know We Ve was all r greed as this stranger aut liable to come back n Joe was miss In you Jou tell teU him he was gone away aay Yes I told hIm all rl right ht said Jake but that aint to ay as we might not want Toe Joe round afore were I through with the game Who do you reckon thIs yer man s Who is he demanded Greenhut I Well lIes hes George Payton said with the calmness of one who knows that no emphasis will add Importance to his astonishing words Hes George Payton that boss hoss thief an burglar broke Out ut o state prison twice an theres a Towar reward of 1000 for him dead or alive aUve There was a chorus of astonIshment and Greenhut said Joe sure Is almighty hasty It fourteen hundred stead o 0 four hundred t he out o window But to tobe tobe be did didWell Well Ive Ie laid it out this way said I met the marshal lookin for him just as he got of olt time the traIn an lie he told me what h he e was after arter Give me a description o this Payton aton sos t I who n nI nI I put him on a false trail Told him Id sold a hoss to the feller feHer t he described an hed rid off to the north So I sold him another boss hoss an hes goin after him as soon as he sets gets his dinner Hes up to the hotel now an got Payton in a back room buin red liquor to keep him out 0 the th way till the marshal goes Then him and me meIs meis Is goin to bring Payton back baek here bere Hell play poker again aU all rIght ir if Bassett aint here an re Ive satisfied hIm on that poInt Wen Well we dont really need Toe Joe I old man Greenhut uNo No said Billings quietly We dont ne need d the sheriff so tar far as winnin the four hundred an the ye re reward ward goes Theres enough reliable citizens round here to to aU all th that t tOny Ony I dont care about bin boin round when Bassett gets back an finds weve sent him out o 0 town an captured a aho ho thief while he was awn away right said Gr Greenhut with witha a sigh I reckon well hav have to let Toe Joe stand in I That wont do said Billings firmly The only thin thing is to keep the feller till Toe Joe gets ets ba back k an turn him over to him Then Joell get the ye re reward ward his own sel an We 0 con cr count on him to do thing If you do it itan an any other way hell heJl make e trouble After much discussion this was agrEed to and went out again to get Payton going along to mak sure that the marshal was safely out of thew the way Inside ot o another hour houra a game was in progress in back room with Payton Baisley Pearsall and Billings at the table Peters stood It 11 but he lid did not take a hand it being thought better to have one man in the room who ho waS not playing Nothing was vas said a limit so it was understood that they were playing out under the sky White chips were a dollar and the local talent expected little delay in the annexation of the Payton was known to have For the first two or three rounds nothing of any special interest hap happened happened Remembering what had hap happened the night before the other pla play ers era watched Payton closely to see If he were holding out any cards but some somewhat somewhat what to their surprise they saw noth nothIng nothing Ing out of the wa way in his play pay Even when they scrutinized his dealing the they could not see that he dealt seconds or f even took cards from the bottom o othe of the deck and if he was stacking the cards he was doing it more cleverly than they had ever eer seen It done before Indeed It almost seemed as if IC the stranger were paying pain more attention to the room and the leOPle in It than he was to the game though h he played ac enough Pearsall smiled grimly as he that Payton was looking rather closely at the window through which he had hacI made his exil p the night nigh t before The entire sash ld gone out with him bun n that time ime n a aas us as the weather was wArm it had not edt been replaced Presently amea jackpot that was sweetened tice i J It was as asPa Pa tons deal They with double care but n not t a ma man 5 anything wrong The They declared afterward that It was b re deal r Yet the hands ld ea t least notable sitting 1 first opened It with three BaL Bai Bailey BaLley ley had n a straight but sitting where he did contented himself wIth comIng comins in Pearsall and Billings pairs and they came in Then PaYtOn raised it It had been opened for there bc lag ing that amount In he raised it 60 O and they 11 c me in jt made an even thie pot draw w to thO straight of lila his hand bitt not bet bat better batter ter Balsley Baisley of course pat and Billings thought little ot Of their prospects but ea oath h took onS n the chance of a 8 full fuU s hig that three or of a kind would be useless And Pay Payton Payton ton stood pat Then put i iii t a chip and the others trailed un till it came cameto to Payton who bet a h dr d was the only one c ough t to c l land and Payton showed As none of them had bod bought more than 50 In chips tl the e bc betting was mostly in bills had haij a formidable wad In o of him Which the others e eyed ed co e r rA A new jackpot was on the strength of the call d fuJi and Vint r bottom dealt Again there were some gIe good hands out for Pearsall caught four sevens cold BillInGs had tJ c tens and Pa Payton ton a fun full hOUse It w was se sometimes noticed that when the oth others othera ers era held good hands on deal the dealer would hold nothing Pearsall opened for 25 Billings trailed and Payton raised It 2 Pear Pearsall sail sall came back with 25 more and Bil Billings lings trailed lignin again Then Payton made it 50 more and Pearsall raised back Billings dropped and the other two raised each other 50 30 and at a time till pile was all on the table along with all an equal amount ot of Pear sails and some extra money It looked bad for Payton but j as picked up the dt dk k to serve the draw reached for forward forward ward with a movement and seized every bill In the pot At the same instant he sprang from his chair and disappeared thrOugh the th window casement There were other inen In the room who were almost as quick as he be and several pistol shots rang out as he made his exit But none ot of them as asfar asfar far as was ever eyer discovered did him any harm When the furiously angry anSTY poker 1 players reached the window in pursuit and looked out they heard a derisive laugh from some where In the dark darkness darkness ness and a moment later the patter or of orno ofa no a horses hoofs as lie he was spurred to his speed nd io man In Arkansas City thereafter had ad any au authentic authentic informatIon of the whereabouts or of George Payton escaped convict horse thief and burglar When the sheriff sherif returned he listened In grim silence while tho they told him the story in great detail Then lIe made ninny many remarks fluently One thing he said seemed to impress his hearers strongly It was Things has been said them that butts in One g has been beard to say that you call caU em fools ou s special desIrous o em Maybe he heas was as right Pears like it ft seems to fit the idiot been but buttin Un tin Into my line o ork But when agap If c serous u hand PC pears ars like it was pp to some uhl grown man to butt in fri an take a hand |