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Show When big IM wis running the poker game, one night tip, It was pretty well known to the old plijers thnt Hank was In tin game to get the money, nnd thill the house c,ot n piece whenever he turned a trick,' said the man who was ttjlng an Inttlcate solitaire "Hank wan a ope of tho sure-thlns plijcr He'd hav. been a lilglnvnmnn or n privateer If he hnd the nerve 'He hid a hold-out that was a work of art It was worked with a les strlns and whin he stretched out his rlwht leg It lnnded him a. killer During; a very dull season a nood thing drifted In from Chicago He was no easy In a straight on-u-level game thut it was n slnme to do any work on him, but Hank ollid up tho machine and fetched him to land at every session ses-sion ' Some of the other boys were growing sorer every day It wounded them ilocpl to see Hank uishlnK In tho iheck rack over night mid tucking a bundle of jellowbaiks Into his Jeans One night after the game broke up Toolroom Jimmy stned behind, hav-InR hav-InR cqulppel himself with a hunch nf skeleton kes Ijnrlj next mnrnlns ho nppenu.l at a . loekmaker's He paid JI3 tn have the m ichlne equipped with n cloik alarm which vvnitll go off when the string wan pulled It wns u tush Job Jimmy got bark to the club and testored tho hold-out to the locker without helnc dim overall Thnt night the Chicago nun enme around with n lonl of wlno on top of a 120 dltinei and looked ripe enough to lt his life on n kind of n full house I renentlj he proposed thnt th make n J ickpot b puttlns up J10 each, the wlttnet of the pot to buy a bottle On the neconl deal mime one opened tho pot for Ji! before It cime to Mr Chlcigo who Immediately threw In 150 Another plaser drew In for J.M and Hank shovid In the sumo amount The opener took three cntds, the Chlcigo mm drew one nnd Hank drew one It wnn now time tn emplo the hold-out which wns to pass out the king full and nup the legitimate hind back Into the teienws of thc wnlstcont "As Hunk ntrel.hed out Ills leg there wis a buying and burring beneath the vest followed almost Instuntlv bv the loul clamor of the alarm It wns hard to dct.rmlno whose face showed the greatest astonishment, that of the limb or Hunk's "Iliiiik clutihed at It tried to stlllo It with hi wnlstcont. then dropped buck In his ihah lhe Chicago man ntoo 1 up threw back Hanks waistcoat und illncloned the hold out with the discarded h m 1 " Cleut into of palpitation of the heart" said the Chlcigo man 'Hank I don t nei how ou can ntnnd the excitement of pit) Ihr mrdn ' "And Ilnnlc quit thnt house then and theie 'New York Pun |