MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1. 1913.
PLATTSMOUTH EVENING JOURNAL.
PAGE 6.
Copyright, 1914, by
CHAPTER IX.
Shorty Dreams.
"CNXY you don't gamble ncne.
r7 m t-i.
ia. night in the Elkhorn. "Ain't
it iu your t!ood?"
"It is." Smoke answered. "I5ut tbe
statistics are in iny head. 1 like an
even break for my money."
All about tiiem. in the Luge b.irroom.
i: rose the click and rattle and rumble
i t a dozen smiles, at wbkh fur clad,
iiiotvasined men tried their luck. Smoke
waved his hand to include them all.
"Look at them." he said. "U's cold
matlie maties that they will lose more
than they win tonight that the bis
iroportion are losing riqlit now."
"You're stronc: on tippers." Shorty
murmured ad.niringly. "An, in the
main, you're right. Hut they such a
thing as facts. An one fact is st:eak
of luck. The only way to win at gara
blin' is wait for a hunch that you've
gt a lucky streak cumin' an' then play
it to the roof."
"Jt sounds simple." Smoke criticised,
"so simple 1 eart see bow men can
lose."
"The trouble K" Shorty admitted,
"that most men get fooled on their
hunches. On occasion r sure get fool
ed on mine. The thins is to try an'
find out."
Smoke shook his bead. "That's a
statistic, too. Shorty. Most men prove
wrong on tiicir hunches."
"Cut don't you ever get one of them
streaky feeiin's that all you sot to do
is put your money down an pick a
win nor ':"
Smoke lauzhed. "I'm too scared of
the percentage anainst me. Dut I'll
tell yon wlnt. Shorty. I'll throw a dol
lar on the high card, risbt now. and
see if it will buy us a drink."
Smoke wa rdsins his way in to the
faro table when Shorty cauz'it bis arm.
"Il'.d on. l"m gettln' one of tiicni
hunches now. You put that dollar on
rou'ptte."
They went over to a roulette table
near the bar.
'.Va;t t:'.: I :tc or'Z." Shorty
counseled.
"What number?" Smoke asked.
Tick it yourself. Hut wait till I say
let her go."
"Yon don't mE.?n to sny I've cot an
even cnunce on that table:' Suioke
argued.
"As good as the nest seeder's."
I'ut not as good as the bank's."
"Wait an' see." Shorty urged. "Xow!
Let her go'."
The gamekeei er had just sent the
little ivory ball whirling around the
smooth rim above the revolving, many
blotted wheel. Smoke, at tbe lower
end of the table, reached over a player
and blindly tossed the dollar. It slid
a:ng the smooth green cloth and stop
pei fairly in the center of "iH."
The ball came to a rest, and the
gamekeeper announced. "Thirty-four
wins"' He swept the table and along
side of Smoke's dollar stacked $:;,").
Smoke drew the money in. and Shorty
slapped him on the shoulder.
Now, tlnit was the real goods of a
huncii. Smoke! ilow'd I know it?
There's no telliu. 1 just knew you'd
win. Why, if that dollar of youru'd
fell on any other number it'd won Just
the same. When the hunch is right
you just can t help winnin'."
"Suppose it lad come double
naught?" Smoke queried as they made
their way to the bar.
"Then your dollaj-'d been on double
rauc lit." was Shorty's answer, "Tliey's
no get tin aw:y from it. A hunch is a
bunch. Here's how. Come on back
to the table. I sot a hunch, after
pi kin' you for a winner, that 1 cau
pi-k some few numbers myself.
"Are you playing a system?" Smoke
nkcd at the end of ten minutes, when
bis partner had dropped $100.
From idly watching Smoke lecame
fascinated, following closely every de
tail of the 'anie from the whirling of
the ball to t'ue making and the paying
of the l-ts. He made no plays, bow
t rr. merely contenting himself with
!. iking ii. Vet so interested was be
that Shorty, announcing that he had
b.id enough, with difficulty drew
Smoke away from the table.
The gamekeeper returned Shorty the
c!d sn k he had di-poslted as a cre
d n'.::il for playing and with it went a
of paper on which wa scribbled
f.)t-: Shorty carried the sack
rnd the piper ruios the room and
hand'd them to the weigher, win sat
be'ii:!'1 a large pair of gold scales. Out
or Shorty's sack he weighed Si').
which he poured into the coCTer of the
h'.i's.
"That Ii'imh of yont'3 was another
ne of those statistics." Smoke jeered.
"I bad to play it. didn't 1. in order
to find out?" Shorty retorted.
!eer mind. Shorty." Smoke laugh
ed. "I've g"t a hunch right now"
Shorty's eyes sparkled as he cried
fagoily: "WLiut is- it? Kicli in an' play
it pronto."
"lt'snot that kind. Shorty. .Now,
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what I've sot is a Lunch that some
day I'll work out a system that will
beat the spots off that table."
"System! Shorty groaned, then sur
veyed his partner with a vast pity.
"Smoke, listen to your side kicker an
leave system alone. Systems is sure
losers. They ain't no hunches in sys
tems." "That's why I like them," Smoke an
swered. "A system is statistical.
When you get the right system you
cnu't lose, and that' the difference be
tween it and a hunch. You never
know when the right hunch is going
wrong."
"But I know a lot of systems that
went wrong, an I never seen a system
win." Shorty paused and sighed.
"Look here. Smoke, if you're gettin'
cracked on systems this ain't no place
for you. an it's about time we hit the
trail again."
At last, after long hours and day
spent at watching the table, the night
came when Smoke proclaimed that he
was ready, and Shorty, slum and ies
simistic. accompanied his partner to
the Elkhorn. Smoke bought a stack
of chips and stationed himself at the
gamekeeper's end of the table. Again
and again the ball was whirled and
the other players won or lost, but
Smoke did not venture a chip. Shorty
waxed impatient.
"Huck in. buck in!" he urged- "Let's
get this funeral over! Got cold feet?"
Smoke shook his head and waited.
A dozen plays went by, and then, sud
denly he placed ten one-dollar chips on
t 99 T! nnnlliAr irnn oml tha L'jmrk-
er paid Smoke $350. A dozen plays
went by, twenty plays and thirty,
when Saioke placed $10 oa "3." Again
he received $350.
"It's a hunch," Shorty whispered vo
ciferously in his ear. "Ride it; ride
it!"
Half an hour went Ly, during which
Smoke was inactive; then he placed
$10 on "34" and won.
"A bunch!" Shorty whispered.
"Nothing of the sort," Smoke whis
pered back. "It's the sy6tem. Isn't
she a dandy?"
Smoke now altered his play. He bet
more frequently, with single chips
scattered here and there, and he lost
more often than he won.
"Quit it." Short v advised. "Cash in
You've rung the bullseye three times,
an' you're ahead a thousand. You
can't keep it up."
At this moment the ball started
whirling, and Smoke dropped ten chip?
on
"2G." The ball fell into the slot ol
'"2G "
and the keeper again paid him
$350.
"If you're plumb crazy an' got the
immortal cinch bet 'em the limit.'
Shorty said. "Put down twenty-tivc
nest time.
A quarter of an hour passed, durins
which Smoke won and lost on small
scattering bets. Then, with the abrupt
ess that characterized his big bet
ting, he placed $25 on "00." and the
keeper paid him SS75.
"Wake me up. Smoke; I'm dream
in'." Shorty moaned.
Smoke smiled, consulted bis note
book and became ahsorlietl in calcula
tion. He continually drew the note
book from his fiocket and from time to
time jotted down figures.
A crowd bad packed densely around
the table, while the players them
selves were attempting to cover the
sanie numbers he covered. It was
then that a change came over his
play. Ten times in succession he
placed $10 on "IS" and lost. At this
stage he was deserted by the hardiest.
He changed his numbei'nd won an
other $350. Immediately the players
were back with him, deserting again
after a series of losing bets.
"Quit it. Smoke; quit it!" Shorty ad
vised. "The longest string of hunches
is only so long, an' your string's fin
ished. No more bullseyes for you."
"I'm going to ring her once again
before I cash in," Smoke answered.
For a few minutes, with varying
hick, be played scattering chips over
the table and then dropped $25 on
(."
"I'll take my slip now," he said to
the dealer as he won.
"Oil. you don't need to show it to
r-.e." Shorty said as they walked to
the weigher. "I been keepin track.
You're soiuetbin like thirty-six hun
dred to the Rood. How near am I?"
"Thirty-six sixty." Smoke replied.
"Don't crowd your luck," Shorty
pleaded with Smoke tbe next night
iu the cabin as he evidenced prepara
tions to return to the Elkhorn. "You
played a mighty long string of hunches,
but you played it out- If you go back
you'll sure drop nil your wiunin's."
"Hut I tell you it isn't hunches.
Shorty, it's statistics. It's a systeia
It can't lose."
"System the devil. They ain't no
fcucb a thiiig aa system. You got to
sbo.v me."
"1 did show you. Come on with uie
cow, and 111 show you again."
When they entered the Elkhorn all
eyes centered on Smoke, and those
about the table made way for him as
he took up his old place at the keeper's
end His play was quite unlike that
of the previous night. In the course
of an hour and a half he made only
four bets, but each bet was for $2."i,
and each bet won. He cashed in
$3,500, and Shorty carried tl;e dust
home to the cabin.
"Now's the time to jump the game,"
Shorty advised as he sat on the edge
of his bunk nnd took off his moccasins.
"You're seven thousan' ahead. A
man's a fool that'd crowd bis luck
harder."
"Shorty, a nnu would be a blithering
lunatic if he didn't keep on backing a
winning system like mine."
"Smoke, you're a sure bright boy.
You know niore'n a minute than I
could know in forty thousan years.
But I've been around some, an' seen a
few, an' I tell you straight an eouti
dential an' all assuriu a system tc
beat a bankin same ain't possible."
"Rut I'm showing you this one. It's
a pipe."
"No, you're not. Smoke. It's a pipe
dream. I'm asleep- Dinieby I'll wake
up an' build the lire un' start break
fast."
The third night of play as Smokf
laid his tirst bet the gamekeeper shov
ed $15 back to him.
"Ten's all you can play," he said
"The limit's come down."
"Gettin' picayune," Shorty sneered
"No one has to play at this table
that don't want to." the keeper retort
ed. "And I ra willing to say straight
out in meeting that we'd sooner youi
pardner didn't play at our table.""
"Scared of bis system, eh?" Shorty
Ihallenged as the keeper paid ovei
$350.
Night by night Smoke continued U
win. His method of play varied. Ex
p"tt after expert in the jam about the
table scribbled down bis bets and nu:a
hers in vain attempts to work out hi
system. They complained of their in
ability to get a clew to start with and
swore that it was pure luck, though
the most colossal streak of it they had
ever seen.
It was Smoke's varied play that o!
fuscated them. Sometimes, consulting
his notebook or engaging in long cal
dilations, an hour elapsed without hi?
staking a chip. At other times h
would win three limit bets and cleat
up a thousand dollars and odd in live
or ten minutes.
At still other times his tactics woulc
be to scatter single chips prodigally
and amazingly over the table. Tl i?
would cont'nue for from ten to thirty
utes of play, when abruptly, as th
IS
Smoke Cecame Absorbed In Calculation
,ball whirled thro'irrli t'in lr.-t few of
its circles, ht w.mM pliy tbe limit on
column, color and nuiabcr and win all
thive. Once, to complete confusion in
tbe minds of those thai strove to di
vine bis secret, ha lost forty straight
bets, each at the iiiit. But each
iiiglit. play no matter how diversely,
bhorty carried home $3.51.: ijr b.im.
"It ain't no ivstein," Shorty expound
ed at one of their bed going discus
sions. "I follow you :ni" follow you.
but they ain't no tignerln" it out. You
never play twice the same. All you do
is pick winner? when you want to, an'
when yon dou't want to you just on
purpose don't."
"Maybe you're nearer right than you
think. Shorty. I've just pot to pick
losers sometimes. It's part of the sys
tem." 'System the devil: I've talked with
every trambler in town, an' the lasi
one is agreed they ain't no such thi:iu
as system."
"Vet I'm showing theiu uue. all the
time."
(To Be Continued.)
IOn SALE Fine 3-year-old full
blooded short-horn bull. Perfectly
gentle. Iuquire of G. II. Tarns at
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Local News
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Derwood Lynde and A. L. Ander
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George W. Shrader, one of Cass
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Walter Mockenhaupt and wife of
near Murdock were here yesterday
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matters of business in the county
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Miss Eda Marquardt, the 'efficient
county superintendent, was among the
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George M. Ilild came in this morn
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NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION.
All persons interested in the estate
of Agatha Stull, deceased, will take
notice that a petition has been filed
in the County Court of Cass County,
Nebraska, for administration of her
estate and that a hearing will be had
upon said petition on the f'th day of
February, 1915. at 10 o'clock a. m.,
lefore the Judge of the said Court,
snd letters of administration of said
estate granted at said time.
Witness my hand and seal of said
Court at riattsmouth, Nebraska, this
18th day of January, 1915.
(Seal) ALLEN J. BEESON,
County Judge.
D. O. DWYER, Attorney.
AUCTIONEER
-Weeping Water, FCeb.-j
will take charge of your public
sale business. Farm sales a
specialty. Owners' interests
are always guarded wTith the
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guaranteed. For open dates
telephone at my expense to
Weeping Water.
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Public Sale!
The undersigned will sell at Public
Auction at his home, 5 1-2 miles we.-t
and 1 mile south of Mynard, on
WEDNESDAY, FEUUIUKY I'M".
Sale will commence lit 12:'1' sharp,
the following described propcity.
to-wit:
Nine Head of Hordes.
Two dark bay mares, 3 and
1 yea i
old, weight 2,500.
One bay mare 11 years old, with
foal, weight 1,300.
One sorrel gelding, 5 years old,
weight 1,200.
One bay mare, lo years old, with
foal, weight 1,-150.
One bay gelding, 9 year.-; old, weight
1,350.
One bay colt, 1 year old.
One bay suckling colt.
One black suckling colt.
Nine Head of Cattle.
Five cows.
One steer, coming 3 years oi l.
One bull, coming 3 years old.
Two heifer calves. 0 month; old.
Farm Implements.
Two farm wagons.
One steel truck and hayrack, ncv.
Ore spring wae..n.
Or.e bob-sled.
One manure spreader.
One Hoosier drill.
One broadcast seeder.
One new Deere h ly loader.
One corn planter.
One Marseilles corn elevator
power lift.
One l)-inch sulky plw.
One 11-inch wall.iivg plow.
Two lS-inch walking plows.
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Or.e McCormick hay rsde.
One Deering binder.
One two-row machine.
One disc; one stalk rake,
(li e two-iow staik cutter.
One three-section harrow.
5l hedge po.-ts.
And other articles loo numciot; to
merit ion.
TERMS OF SALE.
All sums of SIO and under, ca.-h in
hand; on sums over $10, a credit of
six months will
giving note will
be civen, purchaser
l approved security.
bearing 8 per cent interest from date.
Sale must commence at 12:'; p. rn.
sharp, and every article on this b.il
must be sold to the hiht.-t bidder. No
by-bidding. All properiy rn jt be set
tled for before being iemovi-d from
the premises.
JOHN KliVEGi;!, Owner.
WM. DUNN. Auctioneer.
E. G. DOVEY, Clerk.
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