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!Heating the HooKies — By JOHN IRVING DAY - -. In the /Realm of High and Loto Finance tell you. Danny, it's hard ly worth the candle. The police are keeping a close watch on pool rooms and are liable to nab the whole bunch before you could turn a trick." Doc Floyd, master mind of the High Rollers' club, was uttering words of wisdom to Danny Roberts, player of juvenile roles in the life drama enacted by the members of the club. "Hut. old man. I've just to sell the professor a package, and there's noth ing that would be so easy. He's bugs on the races. I’ve met him and got his confidence, and he doesn't know that I ve got it in for him so hard that I'm going to make him take the high jump." "Hut why have you got to resort to the old 'wire game' to land him?" ques tioned Floyd. "And you haven't told me what gave you your grouch against him. Tell me about it." "Well, if you only knew him, you wouldn't need to ask why anyone wouldn't want to hand him a package,” replied Danny. » * * * Could Herr Oberman. teacher of vocal music, by any occult power have overheard and comprehended the con versation that was going on between Danny Roberts and Doc Floyd he would have locked his questionably acquired fortune in the strong box of some safe deposit company and thrown the key away. Herr Oberman, graduate front the ranks of rathskeller musicians, had opened what he was pleased to term a conservatory of music in a Michigan avenue building habited by others of his kind. There, in a period of a few short years, he had waxed fat in purse and person, luring into his net, by at tractive advertisements, young women with ambitions to outshine the Melbas and Mary- Gardens of grand opera. To all of these he promised great things, but no prima donna ever had gradu ated from the school of Oberman. He was only one of many who preyed on the vanity of women who believed themselves possessed of divine voices. * * $ It was a smiling, cheerful Banny Roberts that greeted the professor in the dingy pool room the dav after his conversation with Doc Floyd. So another good dip. we have," was ihe gleeful remark of Herr Professor when he bad read the message which advised a good bet on Cheese Cake. "Ye'll make dose boolroom fellers sick, eh?" "That's it." replied Danny. “I've al ready got my bet down. You’d better hurry up before they cut the price. I'll see you later. I've got to get down .the street to meet a party." Danny did not wait to see the frantic look and hear the swear words in Ger man which were emitted by the pro fessor when Cheese Cake failed to be heard from in the race. He hadn't lost a cent of his own money, but had faked a telegram for the express purpose of having Oberman lose. The next day Oberman was waiting anxiously in the pool room when Dan ny appeared. Before the excited Ger man could start to tell of his hard luck and how he had lost a whole hundred dollars, Danny produced another tele gram explaining that Cheese Cake had been kicked and crippled at the post, which accounted for his poor race. The second message also advised that uauuy uown goou on Kareoit. I nis lime Danny waited with Oberman to hear the running of the race called off as iis description was ticked out over ihe ielegraph instrument. 'They're off! Rarebit in the lead. Handy Bill second: ihe others bunched,” and Danny shivered at the announcer's words, for he ha$ not es 1 tr ied Rarebit to be heard from any more than Cheese Cake had on the pre vious day. "Cashbox wins!” and Danny gave a sigh of relief which Oberman took to be one of pain accompanying his own moan of anguish. "Dandy Boy sec ond." continued the announcer. ‘‘Nar cissus is third.” "Now what do you think of that for hard luck?" was the mock moan of Danny to the professor. ‘ There we were leading all the way and then our horse drops out of sight. I’m going to quit this game. It's impossible to beat even with what is supposed to be the very best of information.” Professor was too grieved to listen to Danny. He had troubles of his own. It was a cheaper drink than wine the iwo took when they adjourned to the bar room under the pool room. As they look their drink Danny once more said that he was going to quit trying to beat ihe pool room until he found a surer way of beating it. He hinted mysteri ously that he had some such way in mind and told Herr Oberman inas much as he had caused him to lose by allowing him to bet on his tips he might be able to let him in on a good ihiDg where they could do better than get even in a day or two. As he said good-by Danny told the professor not to do any more betting until he had heard from him, which might be on me morrow. * * * Herr Oberman was just bowing his last pupil of the day out of the Obor nian school of vocal culture. It was but three o'clock in the afternoon, but Herr Oberman had arrived at the time when he could make his choice of hours for his pupils. It was none too cordial a greeting he gave Danny Rob berts, who rushed in excitedly right at his closing hour. “I've got it!” whispered Danny, ex citedly. “Is there anyone here that can hear us?" “No. AVhat Is it?” inquired the pro fessor, becoming interested. “Don't ask me now. I haven't got time to explain. Get your hat and come with me. We must hurry.” The excitement of Danny was con tagious, and before he knew it Herr Professor was in the elevator and speeding towards the street. Once on the sidewalk, Danny rushed his fat friend down Michigan and over across Jackson boulevard to the Western Union building. There he almost big play from the board of trade men and other big bugs. They never turn an eyelash at a $5,000 bet. There's a telephone booth right here in the saloon where our friend Brown can call me up. We are just in time for the fifth race at Los Angeles. My friend Brown is going to call me up here as soon as he gets the result from there and then we’ll hurry up-stairs and get a bet down. ‘■Just so we'll be certain everything will go through all right, we'll only make a hundred dollar bet to-day. and then if it is O. K. we can pick out a race to-morrow to make our killing in. After that, there's nothing to hinder us front taking in some of the other rooms and we ought to be able to clean up a hundred thousand dollars apiece with out anyone getting on to our game." No such thing as a conscientious scruple occurred to Herr Oberman as Doc Floyd and Jack Oleiand. when Herr Oberman, puffing front the exer tion of a brisk walk, arrived in due time at the rendezvous. “There, you answer the phone this time, and be sure you get the result* right,” said Danny when the telephone bell jingled. Still trembling with excitement, Herr Oberman grasped the receiver and was informed that Mr. Brown was talking. He wrote down the names of three horses: Wild Cat, first; Sweet Alice, second, and Romeo, third. “All right, you bet your $2,000 on Wild Cat, and I’ll play Sweet Alice for a place,” instructed Danny, when the professor had showed the names he had carefully penciled on the back of an envelope. Why prolong the agony? A moment after the wagers bad been recorded the telegraph sounder began a business-like clicking. The operator announced in low tones that the race was off. The bettors crowded close to hear the calling of the description of the race. The three horses as given Herr Oberman were all prominent in the running throughout. And then—“Romeo wins!” “What!” shrieked the professor. “Wild Cat, second—” “Hell!” shouted Danny. "Sweet Alice, third,” continued the operator in low, sing-song tones. “Wbipsawed. or I'm a goat,” mut tered Danny, as he pulled the almost fainting Herr Oberman to one side "I TIDN’T, I TIDN’T,” MOANE D OBERMAN. "I’M RUINED!’ j shoved the astonished German into a:a j other elevator. At the second floor of j the building a man in shirt sleeves, : with pencil resting behind his ear in ! business fashion, got into the same ! car. The shirt-sleeved and hatless per ■ son got off the car at a top floor, where , Danny and the professor also left it. j With a warning gesture, the shirt - j sleeved and hatless one motioned the i other two to a distant corner of the | hall. There he was introduced to the professor by Danny as an old friend : who had charge of the racing wires i over which the odds and results on all races were transmitted to the pool | rooms throughout the middle west. Ts it all right?" whispered the breathless Danny. "As right as a compass. Does your friend understand that I'm to get half of the winnings?" "No. I haven't had time to explain to him yet. I know he's all right, though." The flattered professor beamed at Danny's enthusiastic words of indorse ment, and then it was explained to him that Mr. Brown, the Western \ I’nion race wire manager, could with hold the result of each race after It came in until he had telephoned Dan:iy and given him time to get down a go-ad bet in the pool room before they knew that the race was off. Danny promised to explain matters more fully to the be fuddled professor on thrir way to the pool room. As soon as they had taken leave of the fictitious Manager Brown, the latter walked down-stairs to the second floor, where he had left a boy holding his hat and coat, and donning these he was out and away from the building five minutes behind Danny and the professor. "And now.” said Danny to the by this time thoroughly bewildered Herr Oberman. when they had reached a quiet little saloon on a side street, “I'll show you how we are going to get even with the bookmakers. We want to make a good thorough test of Ibe scheme before we make any big bets. There's a pool room over this salcon where they don’t “have anything but he glowed all over in anticipation of such wealth easily acquired from the pool room men. He thought this about the cleverest scheme he had ever heard of and so expressed himself with much show of enthusiasm. The two conspirators had just finished a drink when the telephone bell rang and, ex plaining to the bartender that he was expecting a call, Danny rushed into the booth before anyone else could beat him to it. “Hello! Yes; this is me. You say it's M. M. All right, everything's O. K. here.” Danny hung up the reeciver and. mo tioning for the professor, he mounted one flight of stairs and was admitted to a carefully guarded room in the rear of the rickety old-time building. Herr Oberman saw that the place was fre quented by a much smaller though a more select crowd of patrons than the ordinary pool room. Danny whispered to him that Military Man was the horse in the fifth race, but that the odds were only even money. He tendered a hundred dollar bill to a prosperous looking person to bet on the horse in the fifth race at Los Angeles. The operator called off the descrip tion of the running of the race from start to finish, and Military Man was not heard from until the stretch was reached; then he was making one of his famous home-stretch runs, and as was expected by Danny and the pro fessor, Military Man was announced as the winner. That night Danny Roberts reported still further progress to Doc Floyd and Jack Cleland. He had parted with Herr Oberman with the understanding that they were to meet at the lunch hour on the morrow and pick out a race that gave promise of paying big odds for the winner. Accordingly the appointment was kept and the fourth race on the Los Angeles track was selected as the one giving greatest promises to the conspirators. • » * Danny wras waiting outside the little saloon on the side street, over which was the fake pool room fitted out by “You must have gotten those names In the wrong order.” “I tidn't, I tidn't,” moaned Oberman. “I'm ruined!” Herr Oberman wiped his Derspiring brow and fat neck, too dazed to speak. He did, however, hear what Danny said, and .took a bit of fresh courage. The two waited for ten minutes, after which time the operator announced that the finish of the fourth race at Los Angeles was O. K., and Danny dragged the professor down-stairs and to the bar. Before they had taken their drink Jack Cleland, alias Brown of the Western Union, hurriedly en tered the bar. "Give me my part of the money, quick!” he demanded. “My heavens, man, what have you done?” exploded Danny. “The horses didn't finish as you gave them to the professor!” And then he explained that the horse they had played to win had run second. “Why, you fat-headed Dutchman. I ought to break your head!” was the in dignant response of Cleland as he glowered at the still dazed Oberman. "Serves me right for doing business with a fat-headed Dutch fiddler.” "But,” broke in Danny, "Let's buck up. We'll have another chance at it to-morrow and I’ll take down the names, so there won’t be such a mis take. Don't be too hard on our friend. He was probably excited.” “To-morrow, hell!” growled the pseudo Western Union man. “The peo ple in the office heard,me telephoning you and got on to me holding back the returns and I've just been fired. I’ll never be able to get another Western Union job." “Mine Gott!” groaned the professor, as he sunk into a chair beside a beer stained table. 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