Show BLUFF IS IS' CALLED At the time that I refer reter to said tho the wide successful man El EI Paso was nas a a. open town toYn in every sense sen-o of the word Captain Jack Sawyer the proprietor of the Rip Grande cafe care was a curious char char- acter A big kindhearted kind man full of or onerous generous impulses he had this peculiarity peculiar peculiar- ity while ity-while while he was a most charitable man and always alwa's ready rend to give gl when there was occasion for lt It he ho would not lend under any clr circumstances It was sas like shaking a red a-red red rag at a bull to ask him for tor a loan Dan Hamilton was wan a thoroughbred sport pIrt and had the most remarkable cock cockeye cockeye cockeye eye that thal was ever seen This eye the eye tho right one which one which had earned for him the tho the sobriquet of or Cockeyed Dan had a ft strange frozen stare and always persisted in looking in the tho opposite direction from that In which the tho left lert eye was focused Dan never said anything about his in infirmity tn In- and no one thought It healthy to uk him about It Il One night when I was was as in the tho Rio Grande Grando talking to the captain at his desk he ho looked over toward a faro taro table where Cockeyed Dan was as playing and remarked re remarked re- re marked Dans Dans dropping his roll I lose loe six thousand to him last week but hut Im I'm potting sot pot et- et ting it back tonight Hes He's over four thousand to the bad now the they tell me Ill I'll t pet et It all in a little while The captain was 8 right for in less leIs than fifteen minutes to the surprise of everyone everyone every oven one in tn the room Dan walked over oV r to the captain and said saLd Im broke captain lend me mOo mea a a. thou thou- sand f that snarled the captain ready to fight I remarked that I 1 was broke re replied replied re- re plied Dan calmly and asked you ou If Ir you would kindly lend a thousand tYes Yes I will wUl growled the captain wits tine line sarcasm yes yel I 1 will if It you ou will give o me your our right eye for tor security I To tho the surprise and horror of or us all Dan took front Its socket his right eye which he quietly q leU laid before the captain Theres the eye captain said sold Dan smoothly Take good care of ot It it please until I call caU for tor it It cost me mo 26 and I Ive I've vo only one extra one In m my trunk The captain was knocked out for the instant he looking first at Dan then thon at atthe atthe the glass glus o eye e and then at the crowd who were watching the fun But he was game and ho he- made rood good Dan got his thousand but the captain was drunk for a tI week Nashville eek Ban Ban- nero ner |