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Show I lUOlt BridC bV U Cnne$e Glrr tiand i I - staked on Hand at gaisie of gard$ qmr . . Jerrj ltlatchford and Dan Cooper are two moonshiners of Plkevllle lenn who were In love with bnll) Thompson of the same town She was a ticni'li-dous ticni'li-dous fllit and loublnt make up her mind between them rinsll) she compromised com-promised h) taking neither. When Jerrj took her to the couill) fair last fall she had such a good time ' that she came ' mighty neai accepting accept-ing him on the wa) homo, but b!k dldn t. The next week Han took her to the dame nt Tollett nnd he locked so big and handsome nnd danced so inn, h Imttei than Jen and the test that she almost lcldd to his proposnl then and theie Jerrj brother had been killed In a row over a girl a few years berore and the Incident had sobered him eonsld-oiabl), eonsld-oiabl), so he felt nveise to settling the matter In that wn Han nn the other hand was tno good-natuicl t shoot except as a last reeoit ami rn the mat tor dragged along until last luesdaj night Jerrj nnd 11 in were over nt tike's grocer) In Plkevllle and got to dunking dunk-ing and plijlng cauls Smite 1 nn upturned potato baskets with ii box for a table nnl a sputtering sputter-ing tallow e imlle situ k In the new k of n bottle for n light their teckless playing play-ing nnd letting roon diew around them Mi Inteiested crowd such ns one sees In a mountain town The plajors wild i")es and tense drawn faces as the stakes weie won or lost boded III for lhe winner At list lerrj s monov wns exhausted ho having also stnknd and Inst his watch and i linln Straightening himself up nnd glaring at Din he brought .his list down with such force upon the shnk) box that enndlej and cauls were siatteied In nil directions 1 II bet the gil he hlssid If je; wins jer gits her If I win she s mine Dan wis too much under the Influence of liquor to rnio ami rendllv assents 1 mil thej pieputed to plaj the game of tbel, lives i.pn uniige, who lives ncross tho line In I In Id win eountj was one of tne hj-Mnnders hj-Mnnders Ho wns a stranger to Snllj hut h id seen her nt a dance and re-inembeiel re-inembeiel her piettj blue ejes nnd Biaccful lleure Slipping Dan on tho back Eph ' 'lowed he ought C be In the game too" Whether It wns the thoiighf that If a stranger won her It wouldn't he so hard or whether It was the quantity of whisk) thov hud Imbibed Is bird lo tell hut the) let him Into the game The cards were shuilled and the garni began rite, silence pievnlled ainont the Mnup of rough men who were looking look-ing on nnd on the races m the plajers was a grim st look or determln itlon their pillor enhanced by the flickering cindle light Luck seemed to fivor Jerry nt first but with each shuu or the enrds the two rivals fortune seemed to ebb until nt last with a gleam of triumph In his o)ee rpb. threw his enrds on the box exelalinlng Aee king, queen, Juk and ten' Mie s mine The crowd diew buck expecting thlt a ilghi would folio v but honor Is honor among theso lough mountaineers and Sail) was I'ph s by light of conquest The two rivals shook binds irrmn the Isbak) box and It was proposed that nil three go and tell sllv i Ho terr) Dan nnd l'ph set off on foot for old man Ihompeons eiblu 'Hello Hnllv ' said leir). when she opened the dooi '1 ve brought )0 a husband ' Jerr) h) I his time was too for gone from di Ink to reollre the ludicrous part he was pin) log tnd Dan who brought up the lent was about ns bad Kph was nearlj sober lied never been hiought thus fsee to face with matilmnny befoie and the matter now loomed up so seilouslj closo that he fcrevv palo nnd liembled Old man Thompson who sat smoking his i Ipe In the e ornei pave the men n rather i rust) greeting and relapsed Inln reverie He had grown tlreil seeing see-ing bis daughtw s beiux and considered consid-ered titetii no count nnjwa) Hut gav flirtatious Sill) wns wlde-e)ed wlde-e)ed with amasement and looked rrom one to the other for explanation We had a game Sollv, Din, anl I up at Rlke s ' mbl Jenv ' to see who d Kit ver ,nd Ppl, heie who never see'd jou but once got Into the game some how and blnst the luck he won Po I low ns long as )ou cnuldn t decide twlxt me nnd Dm, thct jou 11 Jlst hev lo lake 1 ph lhats light snld Dm 'I gives jer up now There s nn uso liuckln gin tho kenrds ' Sill) looked contemptuous!) from one (c the othei I guess lie sonielhln' to sa) 'bout who 11 innir) said she "Neither one of vo Is worll, the ponder to blow ye up and I wouldn t have )e ir )o owned a fort)-ai re fan,, ' "Ive got slxlv acies and a boss nnl two tows" snld Ppl, seeing a chance to louse Sill) a Interest 'Much nf It cleat Ing?' dennnded K.I 111 fnlhor Ploughed more n half of It list jeu, Mid Eph The old man looked Interested and Pall) went Into the pinti) and returned re-turned with some whisky With the whisk) I'ph s conversational rowers waimed up He's considered a 'right smnrt talker' down there and when he gets Hurled can hold his own with the best of them The) slid arterward that Kph tnlkel so much that Dan went to slep nnd when he woke up he wanted to know If Ppl, nnd Hillv were muirled yet v.or might elei worser Hullv slid hr rithe, Sally begin to relent nnd giggled nt ever)thlng that I'ph said Kph waB big and handsome anl then there w is that sixty nero farm It wns settled tbnt night that she was to nnrry I ph Th, i eddlng look plire, Inrt Punday and Jerr) ind Dan wero tho first to kiss the bride |