Show THE DOUBLE CROSS CROSSON CROSSON ON DAN SHINE I II I He Went Against Two Superstitions II I I at Once and Set Hoodoo Working g I New York Sun I I Ever since the time I win two thousand nd i f fm m Bucko McLaughlin in Sandy Peters I place in Chicago the double cross cro pears I Ito to been on me overtime said big Dair Shine who was a few tew years ago one of or the th well known gamblers of or the mid middle middle middIe dle dIe west westRe He Re was sitting with two friends in the moonlight on the deck of a Mississippi river boat and as they smoked they talked of everything on earth Presently i he was doing all the talking There was that time I set In with Red I Monahan and an l his gang in Fraziers place in Milwaukee he went on I 1 knew well enough what I was up against but Monahan himself was the only one of em eta had the nerve nerre to draw on me and he get the drop on me not If I was awake Then Frazier was a friend o 0 mine mineI I knew I 1 be took unawares in his place He lie gave me the office I went in do you Dan he says but I Ilau laughed lau hed They The aint the kind I says Mona lona Monahans Monahans hans a tinhorn an his gangs mutts I come up to do them an If they II ony play pia Ill lave have their wads play fast enough he said an the game was on inside of half an hour hou This here Monahan was a stuff He lie was a slick player 0 O course twant no Question q es on o 0 luck lu k That game gam hung on science an else He was some ahead early in the game an settled to have a killin so I give him ace full pat on my deal an took three sevens to my m own hand There was enough goods round the table for to have con tra III n when I raised an he raised back so there was nigh 1000 on the table when it come back to him me having raised an he pushed in another thousand The others drops but I sees the thou thousand thousand thousand sand an lifts the deck to give out the tiie draw Hes been settin kind o 0 back in his chair with his left hand In his lap up his his right one at ata ata ata a time as they conic come to him an then let lettin lettin tin em lay He never took a second look at em When lien hen I says ays How many man he never says but shoves in another thou thousand sand sanI Just at that stage o 0 the proceed Ins I hears a click So I takes one card my own self Just sos to prove to t myself t I made ho no no mistake an I throws my four sevens In the discard an quit the game right there What do you ou mean by b a click asked one of his friends He lie looked at his questioner pityingly pi for tor a moment and then said with a drawl Well I see Meb be he was his thumb joint under the table Then they smoked a while longer and after a time Dan said meditatively meditative Fraps you dont know it but theres conscience among sporting men that is among square sports I mean If a mans decent hell find out In time t he lie cant do hed ought to be ashamed of or but what hell have hard luck fr tr some time comin If It Im led into a game really crooked like a man will be sometimes that hoodoo 11 n work sure as hellfire burns What V hat do you call a really crooked game said the other friends with feeble feebleminded feebleminded feebleminded minded curiosity and again the gambler looked compassionate One on em answered Dan Danas as I reckon Is with a decent man when you know make him a thief if you ou win Then theres another thing t I balk at My 1 old dad was waB as square a man as ever straddled a hoss boss He lie was a Johnny Reb an he be fit clean through the war to the end endWell endWell Well Veil dad talked to us a heap afore he died an I 1 never forgot It This here war he be used to say over an over has h s been a terrible mistake We uns thought we could secede but we vie been crushed We Ve I want just licked We e was crushed Now remember Taint no use an any I thin big enough to crush you Dont fight God Don Dont Dont t fight whisky Dont fight the No Nobody o body bod won wont t never neer get the best of any an one on em sure crush the man t tries It The more studied I his the more I seen there was a hoodoo In It an f Im fm m the day dav he died I 1 never seen the theold theold theold old flag nag nor the blue blut uniform a shudder how I run ag in two hoodoos an got the double cross when I 1 play pIa Bucko McLaughlin Id heard about Bucko Mc McLaughlin McLaughlin Ic Laughlin fr a couple or ten days das afore he blew in at Sandy Sand Peters place that night Hed been blen jammin round town some like a wildcat out on a frolic drink drinkin in bank an raisin merry hell genly till tin he got some talked about Twant what he did but the way he did it If he had a fight the other feller fener was licked If Ir he played bank hed throw a twenty or a fifty flet on a card an let it lay through the deal winnin four tour times an walkin off laughin with or 1600 o 0 the banks money mone to blow In somewhere else Never played but one deal an never neer lost on It When I seen him I got a shreck an I Isas says sas to Sandy hed better count me out ont Twant that he was smooth faced an boyish It was the he t clothes ho he wore an when Sandy ast me what chilled my m feet teet so sudden I was ashamed to tell him You see he had on the undress uniform an they hadn t none of em told me he was in the army arm Pears he was on fur furlough furlough furlough lough Well Veil there thue was talk an when Bucko McLaughlin wanted me to play piny him a freeze out at stud I cd see I was w 1 in fr tr fra tra a roast if I play pia so I said yes es to say I 1 was 0 o th Ui blue I reckon every man is a coward some somewhere somewhere somewhere where an 1 I never cd stand bein be In laughed at He made it for a 3 housand thousand an we each took five stacks o 0 blues a chip bela ten dollars Sandy dealt for us himself an McLaughlin watched him like a D cat be besides besides sides callin for a shuffle every eel few hands an the deck mighty care careful careful careful ful He want no tenderfoot If he was wasa a boy bo Anyway Anwa It were a lively settin Mc McLaughlin McLaughlin Ic Laughlin night got the best o 0 the freeze out once when I 1 sized him for a bluff me havin aces up agn his three kinds one king being burled buried He put in his hib stack an I called If Ir I been some little winner afore hed a took my pile pilI but it left me three hundred to play with again his seventeen an we played on The cards came my way for tor a spell after that an I worked him down to eight hundred when the hand come I 1 had three sevens an a ten sho show In an he ho nad four tour clubs 0 O course t was my m bet an I put in lu my pile knowin t my burled buried card was a 11 aten aten ten He do but call hav hay havIn In ln a flush an that wiped him out He lie was game though an out another five hundred he says Bays hell go me again If that dont win he says sas with witha a laugh have me busted an what I been fr tr a year So I do no less n to give him his hi chans t tWell Well that ony on lasted four or five deals He out me on the last card n had me beat in sight fifty Id bet afore that but I got every ever pot but that till I had all the chips again Then he be turned as white as milk but buthe buthe buthe he never lost his grit Laughin again he got up an said Good night for tor the door 0 O course cOUnse Sandy ast him to have a drink afore gem join In an he turned back with a couple o 0 friends t was with him an sn we all he was through with his frolic an d go back to his regiment He lie reely did start fr tr the door again but afore he got there he turns an says Ive got anther another five hundred here t dont belong to me Ill take a whirl with that I reckon An he calls fr tr more chips That give me a chill chili Id a gave him five fiva hundred to t go away awa ruther n to play any further fr f r It come to me strong t tI tI I II I was up agin another hoodoo in case I Iwas Iwas Iwas was to win but I 1 seen it go That game lasted out one deal T r caught a Jack Jak burled buried an a queen en an he had eight r I bet a fifty rit ritan an he stayed Then I got n a ten an lie got a ten an I bet a hundred an tn he made it two It looked like a bluff an I It t I II I I II I I i I I i I stayed not carin much whether her I win or not bein hem as the heart was vas all out o ome ome ome me meMy My next card was a nine an his was another eight givin him the bet with a pair of or eights in sight an moren likely a eight or a nine burled buried Either way way he lie had me beat an If he h reely reel had warY either ether one on em o course he he had me beat beaL Anyway he pushed in his stack Alls I had to look for tor was a king or a eight with a poor show o gittin the eight but I stayed knowin It was poor play but bein reckless re kless Well he caught a ace an I got bot the case eight but o 0 course we was all in so It was a show showdown showdown showdown down an my straight beat his three eights I felt sorry fr rr Bucko McLaughlin cLaughlin that night when he ha went out whiter n nhe nhe nhe he did afore an I never heerd o him Im fm f m that to this but there was another man I felt sorry for too an that was Dan Shine that I was up agin the double cross Sandy got his rake r ke off o 0 course an when we settled I says to him bring you no luck Sandy Sand but h li ony laughed Its them young fools he says that makes the business pay But all the same nobody ever seen Sandy again after he left his place to go home that night What became of him Well there aint no tellin You know what Chicago is isAn IsAn isAn An for me I aint never had no luck luek since that night I lost Bucko McLaughlins lins uns money an four thousand more in inside Inside inside side of or a week bank Then rhen I 1 went ent up to Prairie du Chien to set fn In at a poker game t looked good fm rm rma a distance an got bot shot the second day We Ve both went to hospital but man mangot mant mangot got t out first an I was wan him when I broke this wrist in a railroad smashup Now I cant play nor shoot for a month to t o come an the Lord knows next The two friends left Dan Shine In New Orleans some som day later but neither of or them ever saw him again The only news they had bad of him was in a newspaper para paragraph paragraph paragraph graph which said he was in hospital silt suf suffering su fering from blood poisoning pol |