Show aw ll 11 is f 4 oo 00 AD the oa 4 eating by JOHN IRVING DAY jn in the realm of high and lobia finance if cnance t U 11 oil ou danny it a liar I 1 tv v worth orth the can call lie the alico are keeping a watch atch on pool room rooms an all I 1 are liable to nub nab the tile whole bunch before aou ou chui I 1 turn a trick doc doe 1101 I 1 master mind ot of thy the high rollers club was uttering worda mortis of willom to dann danti roberts clayir of jule tille roles in n the lite urania enacted by tho the fimbers niL tubers ot of the club out but old nian man I 1 vo ve just to sell the a package anil arid there a noth rc ing that would be su pas lie a bugs ian on lb races I 1 e met him and got hi lit 8 IN confidence and he t know kno that tha t 4 10 tt it in ili for him so hard that I 1 m a going to maka him ife the tile high ak ump p 1 ret out but why have you got to resort to the old wire game to land him ques cloned mod and you haven t told nie me what gave ou our grouch against tell roe me about it mat ailt vell all if you only knew knea him you to ask why ally anone an one th want to hand him a pac package hage the exiled Ivil epi led lied danny dauny n 0 ll 11 teacher of local ocal music by any occult power hive h tye fig and comprehended the con l was going on between abny lanny roberta and doc doe flo plod d he would A ave his questionably acquired artune la in the strong box of some safe ocl or and thrown the key way graduate from froin at arttie 1110 rante of musicians bad had ade he lie was una pleased to term a of music hi ili a michigan rort building habitud b ba others of tilt ta to kin kInd 4 there in a period of a few bort ott tears he lie had waxe I 1 fat in purse purge avd lid pei on luring into his net by at advertisements oung women omen later I 1 a to outshine the 1121 tol alary S addens of grand opera to erturk bf it theae he promised great things s it it no prima donna eer eier had bradu cat cd drori altho of lie li Is hs on ciril lyone roine of many w ho prea ed on I 1 done dooe unity of women omen who believed cornil possessed of divine voices he ru life lit was baat waat s smiling 0 cr erful danny huntr bet bert 01 elhat that greeted the professor in say 14 dir room the day after his tits with doc floyd SoHo lher good dip we have was J JT pr P gleel TuI remark of herr professor yn n bead read the message which or aft bood let bet on cheese cake antu s 11 mike dose bookroom bool room tellers fetters sick 9 T is it IV replied danny I 1 ve al at bor V dy euty bet down you it d better ary err tf u up pL before the cut he the price 10 you later I 1 ve got to gt g t doa down n I 1 et retho eItO meet a party lebel it not wait A sit to see ee the frantic aad and bear the swear words in ger calel 1 emitted b the pro a in hor cheese cake failed to be jold ti omm the race he lie hadn haan t lost ler let ol 01 blot own mone but had faked jie the 11 laor the express purpose of ob r an lose h irtel aft 66 axt day was waiting ilk the pool douai when dan om peni before the excited ger hirt to 0 19 to tell of his hard luck I 1 ble ele lost a whole hundred aaa a ay produced another tele L DOI pia oaf aaning that cheese cake had ie icke end and crippled at the post an to 9 ae bunted for his poor race the ri i lessage also advised that aown on good on ott rarebit this I 1 by L waited with nith to ti ial of the race called off oft tt te hatton jtb wi ticked out over 18 done it instrument I 1 a via lir rarebit in the lead al 31 beconi the lie others ell b danny still ered at the nea lo 10 words for he had not x artly ly ald bit lt to be heard from an a 1 1 cheole cake had on the theare pre li ere rih wins and danny gave a he pt liew C which aich took to h den wn in his own owl I 1 age dandy boy see t but littered ed the announcer nar I 1 kofl 14 04 eared enczur 9 iw 10 lo do you think of that for ding tle A was tha the mock moan of ial me be pr fegger there we ve adf A ef all the way may ind then our kill of eight I 1 ni going to abe ir a it its 1 impossible to beat ordial all bat at Is supposed eup posed to be the tile I 1 1 I information ng ab was too grieved to listen rl 1 ina ins in itIN 1 had troubles lea of his own owl and t drink thad than wine the file of ayin dy in n adjourned to be the reading eaden athe r 1 the pool room As they ri pro T k dinny danny once more eald said wo voin to lull quit tr I 1 n tra ing to beat jiin n twyla st ai 4 w he be found a surer aye it he lie hinted iny sterl t wa had BOITO sorro edich at I 1 c it ally in ald itera berman 0 lias litas 0 the caused it him fill to lose 1030 by in a cilip ci bot bet on hta his tips he aft to 0 let him 1 in i oil a good it ev could do bette than ind 0 eliy or two aa As ho he taid 1 let att old told the protessor wor not ot I 1 orb betting until he lie had r SO m which might be on ill I 1 will d I 1 of the dirril I 1 aln at wae was JUKI just 11 boling hie his n it ahe be da dm oui out of the ober p f local culture it was but three dock in lit the lie afternoon but herr had arrived at the time when ho he could make his choice ot of bourn foi hie lite pupils it was as none do tto cordial a greeting gr hi JIL gave danny hob rob barts who ho rushed in excitedly right at his closing hour I 1 ve got it dinny ex Is there anyone here that can hear heir us 0 no o nhat bat Is it t inquired the pro becoming fa terestA don t ask me now I 1 baen t rot got time to explain get our hat and come with me IN a e must hurr the excitement of dann was con tag loue lous and before ho lie knew it herr professor waa was in the elein elevator tor and ana towards the street once on the sidewalk danny rushed hie his fat friend down doin michigan and over across jackson boulevard boul mard to the gestern Ne estern stern union building there he almost shoved the astonished german into an other elevator at the second floor of the building a man in eglit sleeves with pencil penell resting behind hia his ear car in business busl nes fashion rot got into the same car the shirt elected and hatless per son got off the car at a top floor where danny and the professor also left it alth anith a warning gesture he the shirt sleeved and batio sa one motioned the other two to to a distant corner comer of the hall there he lie was to the professor by danny aa as an old friend who ho had charge of the racing wires wire over which the odds and results on all were vere transmitted to the pool rooms throughout the middle west eat la Is tl it all right whispered the breathless danny p s right na as a compass does your filene understand that im to get halt of the winnings no I 1 haven haien t had time to explain to him yet I 1 know hes he nil fill right though the flattered flat ered professor beamed at rt enthusiastic word of indorse ment and then it was explained to him that mr air brown the western anion race wire alro nin manager nager could with hoid the tile result of each rate rc after it came in lit until he hid had telephoned tee phoned danny and given him time to 0 o att down a good bet ba in ili the pool room beffie th taci 3 knew that the race was off dam dant Y promised to explain matters more mare full lo 10 the bt befuddled professor on their wa dav to the pool room As ai A i soon as they hail taken leave lease of the he fictitious manager brown the ho latter walked downstairs to the second floor goor where ho he had left a boy holding his hat and anol coat rind donning theme he lie wae mas out and awa aa from the building five minute minutes behind danny and the professor eBor and now said danns to the by this time thoroughly bewildered a abon hey they had reached a quiet little saloon on a at 1 I ia I 1 street hov van oil how we me are aling to get oven even with the bookmaker bookmakers N ve want to make a good thorough test of tile ho scheme before we make any big bets there thores a pool binom over tiler this saloon N where bere they don dont t here nn thing but blk bl pla f the board of 0 trade men ind ollir bir big burb huge they never turn i at all mash at a bet there s a telephone booth right here it the tile saloon ni whore here N our friend broa it can call me up 1 0 o are just in lit time for the fifth lace nt at aos 1 iii eles my aly friend brown la to boing going to call me up here as soon as he gets the he result from there here and thin well hurr laurri up bad ret get a bet down doil just so well e 11 be certain everything will go through all rihl well only mike a hundred dollar bit today to day and lien therl if it Is 0 X we can call pick pirk out cut a race to morrow to mako make our killing in after that a a nothing lo 10 hinder tie its from taking in goine some of the lie other rooms and aud we ae ought to be able to clean up a hundred thousand dollars apiece with out anyone retting getting on to our game no such thing tin it scruple occurred to herr as iv j i 1 I 1 t 1 I I 1 0 IM he lie glowed all over in anticipation of such wealth easily acquired from the pool room men he ile thought this about the cleverest echeme scheme he bad had ever heard of and so expressed himself with much show of enthusiasm tho the two conspirators had just finished a dink d ink jhc i he the telephone bell rang and ex pla ining to the bartender bart endor that be he was expecting call danny rushed into the booth before anyone else could beat him to it hello I 1 yes this ie to me you say it a at at all right everything every things 9 0 X here danny chulig hui up tip the ree receiver civer and nio mo toning for the professor he mounted one night flight of 0 stairs and was admit fj od to a guarded loom in the rear of he the rickety old time building herr Ober roan saw that the place was frequented by a much smaller though a more select crowd of patrons than the ordinary pool room D danny anny whispered to him that military v was the horse in tie tl a fifth race but mitat the odds odd were viere only even money ile I 1 te tendered a I hundred dollar bill to a prosperous looking person to bet on the borso in the fifth race at ioe I oe angeles the operator called oft off the deserly ion 1101 of the tile running of the race from start lo 10 finish and military tary man alan sia not heird beird from until the str wae mell reached then he was OF making one olle of lith ills famous hom rune runs and as was as existed b danny and tle pro fessor tars man alan was announced as the winner inner that night danny roberts reported still further proK loaa to doc hoyd floyd and adek ck cleland he lie had parted with ith blarr sith the understanding that chev avie to meet nt at the lurch hour on tho morrow anil anti pick out a race ht list case ale promise of paying big odde odds fur the ho winner accordingly the appointment wai rig kept and ho the fourth race on the loa lott angeles track was na as the one giving greatest prom ltee to the conspirators 4 0 danny vaas wa malting alting outside the little saloon on the ade side treet street over which vas wits the fake pool room fitted out bv by I 1 PI vl and jack cleland hell allt 1 auau pul linit from ih eti elkei II 11 I 1 1 I of u brink bialk alk strived in due dai III t HI a o 0 tilt rl ri t on oil tho phon thila ta in 1 lit 1 mille you hit lot t be the ieula ra 1111 11 11 said danny A hell the telephone 11 1 1 I 1 bi 11 j aled III 0 with witt horr 01 in an grasped 1 III leep ivel slid lid wh wish 1 I hut mr nir clug Illik ll IlIg ug 11 alp don lie nomen of three 1 u vilil ild cat cst first 8 gleet billee 11 id and third III 11 right you be bet conr 2000 on it 14 11 ii ami anti pla alice for a i lap instructed diviny hen bell ibe the lit fenar u had sIA iilo pil the th utilities he lind laif fiill on aho th bach back of on fill ell 4 ly I 1 y 11 I 1 I 1 long he lie agony 9 I 1 V afler after tile hid been reforde I 1 ilie tile telegraph r beiran a hallm got like clicking the operator olvi ia in lit low tones that thi tile nico was off tim the bittoni bit tori rod Pd dyne elude to hour the rilling of the description of tho rae aho ih three am then itera vere alt all in in lit the and ihen wins ina hat shrieked ed the tile lito fessor ald cat tit second hell bell tt dann clapet auci allet third continued the operator in low lok singsong tones aill tila datil Md or I 1 in n goat mut wred dinn as he pulled the almost fainting klerr to one tide aide you must have gotten those name names in the wrong order 1 I lldon t I 1 sidn t moaned I 1 im m mined heir wiped hie his perspiring brow and fat neck too dazed to speak lie did ho however Amer hear bear what danny said and took a bit ot of fresh courage the two waited for ten minutes after which time the tile operator announced that the finish jl f the fourth race at loe los angeles was 0 X and danny dragged the professor down stairs and to the bar before they had taken their drink jack cleland alia alias drown brown of the western union hurriedly en he the bar give giva me my part of the money ho he demanded I 1 my ally heal hea hearns ens man what have you done exploded danny the horses finish aa as ou gave them to the orl and then bo he explained that the horse they had played to uan ft in had run second why ou fatheaded fat headed eI dutchman I 1 ought to break your head was the in dinnant response of cleland as be he glowe glowered reil at the ethl still dazed serves me right for doing business with a fat headed dutch fiddler hut but broke in danny iet lets a buck up we well 11 have another chance at it to tomorrow morrow and tako take down the nan dimes es so go there wont be ach a rols rate take don t be loo bard hard on our friend he ile wr 1 probably iro bably excited tomorrow hell growled the escudo udo matern union man the pro pie in the office hoard heard me telephoning and got on to me holding hick the returns and lye I 1 v just been fired III I 1 II 11 never bo be able to get another western union job mine aline gott groined the i professor Iro fessor eor as he sunk into a chair beside a beer stained table and there danny roberts oberta ll and jack cleland left him alone in his grief by this time there wee was not a toul tout left in the supposed pool room kven even the fake wires hod had been torn out and tho the place was copyright IM I 1 by NA V a chapman in orm great |