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MtHEXRY PLAINDEALER, ftToHEXBT, * H*iIje 1 «jp ^ *• |r» '«! v, i ** "* "j, > x r-tc,!i •?•'**- • t •* J*f T *«*i l-*» «A^' 1-- -? ^ •--'-i' •,t:yM- »?:|i'"s &. • ri: Wi •8 -.v* Hugh Pendexter frajifcfcltyTWBuMiaMwiWOa. *"• "EASY* . •TKOP8T8.--In the late *«•- mer of 187«, Peter Dlnsdale, on his way to the Black hills to Join the thronff of gold-seekers, makes the acquaintance of the keeper of a Deadwood gambling house, San Juan Joe, who la returning to Deadwood. On their way through Red canyon Dlnsdale and Joe meet a young woman running from a party of Indians. Dinsdale takes her on his horse and, the two men ride through her- pursuers, killing several. The girl is Lottie Carl, and she has no relative?. Near Deadwood they overtake a prospector whom Joe halls as old •Iron Pyrites." At Deadwood City San Juan Joe, popular In the community, la given an enthusiastic welcome, which Is extended to Dinsdale. Dlnsdale tells Joe of tho robbery of a "Union Pacific train at Ogalala, and the gambler Informs the crowd. Joe takes Dinsdale and Lottie to the house of a woman of the town, Kitty the Schemer, Joe's t mistress, where the gambler had intended to install Lottie. Dlnsdale refuses to allow It, taking Lottie to a house where she will be safefruarded. Dinsdale saves an apparently half-witted individual, known as Scissors, from mistreatment at the hands of a "bad man," Bandy Allen, who vows vengeance on Dlnsdale. Scissors nickname Is derived from his ability to cut. with paper and scissors, remarkable likenesses of persons, or anything that strikes his fancy. 'Dlnsdale takes to him. Iron Pyrites arrives in town. San Juan Joe hints to DinBdale that the town is sizing him up as a road-agent or trainrobber, and advises him to go with Pyrites on a prospecting trip. He also hints of coming profitable "work" In which he can interest Dlnsdale. At a midnight meeting of road-agents plans are made to rob one of the treasurecoaches. Dlnsdale acquires a reputation as a reckless spender and an expert gunman. San Juan Joe, believing blnsdale to be a train-robber, warns him of the coming of "Jim Omaha," Union Pacific detective, and again advises him to take a prospecting trip with Pyrites. Dlnsdale appears reluctant. Dinsdale kills Allen. He then takes to the hills with Pyrites. While prospecting. Dinsdale blunders onto a large log cabin, deserted, but evidently recently occupied. In a cellar Dlnsdale finds a store of Jewelry, gold dust and nuggets, obviously the proceeds of robberies. 4raan enters the cabin. Dinsdale knocks him senseless. He makes his wax,.back to Pyrites. $ CHAPTER VII--Continued. "Still you've tried hundreds of times to make a flash. If we don't find that gold In the old shaft then some one's been ahead of us." "I'm too sleepy to argue," yawned Dlnsdale. Pyrites eyed him shrewdly and hazarded : *T reckon yoor conscience wouldn't trouble you a heap If there was enough money In a game." "Not a bit," promptly admitted Dlnsdale. "Gamblers cheat and It's all right if they don't get caught. The main thing is--don't get caught Lots of men are honest because they're afraid they'll get caught if they go crooked." Pyrites chuckled at this line of cynical philosophy and agreed. "Lots of truth in your talk. But It happens that gold Is what I'm keen about. I'm more interested in tracing llOat-quartz to the mother-vein than rd be in the best herd of hosses ever ran off. A hoss thief would ride alam-bang over a crack that held the price of a hundred hosses. I'd turn the hosses loose and dig down into that crack. San Juan Joe would quit the best pay gravel in these hills just to draw a bu'sted flush. But how we talk! I wish we could take time to work up toward the Box Elder. Those high bars and narrow flats are Just leaded with gold. "But I know I can find something that's better'n anything I've struck jet. I never failed to do It In other diggings. Now there's silver! There's Bear butte. Judas! but there's a country for you. If Crook would ever come with the soldiers so we could tet up there I'd show you some silver indications that would bulge your eyes. Injuns say that's where their thunder god lands when he drops down to earth for a little visit. They reckon the ghosts of all dead Injuns are taken there to look at the rainbow atones and pretty shells and other rubbish before going to live in the real 4bost land." ' A gentle snore Informed him that Dlnsdale was asleep and had missed tauch of hyt talk. Shaking the' oflinder'fl shoulder he advised: - ; "If you can't keep awake when a • Bum's telling you how to find a fortune you'd better crawl into a tent." Rapid City boasted itself to be the "Denver" of the Black hills, but as Jet played seconfl fiddle to Deadwood, lthoufth its location made it the logl- . *al distributing center for the south- \ arn section of the gold country. r~~It was generally believed along ™Rapid creek that once the supremacy * Of the Sioux was broken there would IKS a general exodus from Deadwood «* Gnlch, and that the city below the ( i»,|ong canyon would benefit thereby. The hotel did an excellent business in K,\ Catering to those passing north and ' South over the stage road. ' Another place of varied entertalnment was Calvin's eating-house. The proprietor bought gold. Next to the eating-house was a gambling-hall. This, also, was owned by Calvin. The homeless man finds the easiest way to satisfy his insatiate desire for excitement Is to bet on a card or ; rolling ball.. Calvin further sttmulat- >i.y ed such craving by providing a pretty p;* iTrcnch girl to deal Twenty-one. There 3? was Chippewa Wood somewhere In her .ancestry, but she was vivacious, musical of voice and possessed an undeniably pretty face. The report that Calvin was soon to lose her and that Deadwood City was to acquire her graceful presence brought men in from the outlying diggings to make a wager before she went away. Her favor with the miners was due largely to her rule that none of the gumbllng fraternity could play at Twenty-one. The game was for the miner and tenderfoot exclusively. She was uncanny in her ability to detect a professional. Let him masquerade as miner or teamster or business man and, after one glance from her cool, dark eyes, the delighted spectators would hear her musical voice saying: "M'sieu is mistake. " "Take up te gold. This ees not &r j» gambling man, M'sieurs, attendex-vous, s'll vous plait. Make xe game." And the favored • victims would bundle the • intruder aside and with additional stakes prove their loyalty to a game that frowned on the professional. One man aroused the curiosity of the girl. He kept aloof, yet watched the game. His figure was erect and graceful and the gay tie hinted at dandyism, but it was the white cloth around his liead and covering some hurt that held the girl's Interest. As there was no doubt that the fellow had been drinking it was also possible,) she feared, he would create, a disturbance. * It was his propensity for song which led to the conclusion. "When drunk, men sang in Rapid City just as they did In Deadwood, Just as they sang in the days of the first drink. But to walk alone in the street In the sunshine and sing, albeit the voice was a rich tenor, proved the fellow was fair befuddled. He did not seek acquaintance with any of the habitues of the place, and none knew whence he came, whether from north or south, by stage, horseback or on foot. Three times had he sung before the noon hour and, next to the girl. Scissors the picture-man displayed the most Interest in him. Scissors was well known in Rapid City although this was but his second visit there. Scissors stood behind the Twenty-one table and made ifti outline of the fair dealer and timidly placed It beside her hand. She pushed a chip toward l%lm, but he refused, murmuring: "Let me give it. It pleases ine. I can always get dust from the men." To prove his assertion he walked over to the stranger and began: "It's a gift. Always could do It Preserve your likeness In paper, the only man In the world who can do It. Can make your likeness as exact as any artist can draw It. Do it all In outline, profile preferred. I'm wakan wltshasha. A mystery man. VVakantanka, the big sun mystery, smiles on me and gives me my medicine. Behold!" He began whirling the paper and manipulating the scissors. The stranger watched him closely, alert and puzzled. His eyes widened as he glimpsed the growing outline. When it was completed and extended between the points of the scissors the plctureman said: "Four bits. It's dirt cheap." The stranger stared at the cat-out figure In amazement. He noted that not only was the characteristic pose cunningly caught but that even the bandage about his head was indicat ed. With an inarticulate sound be snatched the paper and tore it to bits. Scissors' lips opened to make protest at such wanton destruction of art, but before he could speak tjbe man was thrusting a dollar into ills hand and was commanding: "Clear out! That silly stuff doesn't Interest me." Then as he realized how deeply the group at the Twenty-one table was Interested in the scene he added; You're spoiling my luck. Now I must have a drink before dare bet on a card." He did not patronize the short bar at the end of the hall but strode into the street and made for the eating-house. And as he walked he obeyed his musical Impulse and began singing la a rich, rollicking voice: I used to love a gal there: they called her Sally Black. I asked her for to marry me, sbe said It was it whack. ( Bat, says flhe to ma; Joe Bowers, before we hitch for life Tou ought to have a Uttle home to keep your Uttle wife. Scissors watched the man enter the eating-house, and then wandered aimlessly about the room In search of customers. After half an hour the stranger returned, and this time he did not halt by the door, but swung down the room and darted a lively glance at the girL He halted and abruptly pushed his way to her table and thrust his hand In his pocket for some money or dust. "No, no, M'sieu. Not hero. Ze game %es not for yon." He slowly drew forth his haiiffl and swung his gaze about as If searching for some one who might be' smiling over his repulse. More to spare the dealer a scene than from fear of the stranger tlje men continued grave of face. With a shrug of his shoulders the man passed on to the monte table, looked on sardonically for a minute, then bruskly asked?: "What's the limit?" "Fifty dollars," answered the dealer without bothering lo glance up. 1 "How much behind your bank7" "Two thousand dollars." Now the dealer deigned to look up. "Bet you two thousand dollars the next card Is red." The dealer dropped the pack before him and rapidly darted his appraising gnze over the challenger. Head hurt, partly intoxicated; yet drunken men and fools are proverbial for luck. "This is a nionte bank." "I know. Bet you two thousand the next card Is red." "Probably is. Probably you got a glimpse of it," sneer*d the dealer. "Leave the deck as It is. Let any one here cut the cards. Bet you two thousand he cuts a red card." "All right. You're on. The bank pays you two thousand if you call the right color." "Red is my color. Shuffle theirf op, but don't bend any of them. Go ahead." " The dealer ran the cards together a few times and squared them up and left them on the table. "Any one In particular you'd like to make the cut?" asked the dealer. The stranger bent down to satisfy himself the dealer was not "forcing" a cut by bending the cards, then straightened and glanced about until his gaze rested on Scissors. Motioning him to approach he caught him by the shoulder and pushed him forward and directed: "Cut the deck, Paper Dolls. You're big medicine, you know. Cut a red card." Scissors stared stupidly as If not understanding. The stranger repeated his command, now speaking sharply. Scissors timidly advanced a hand and seized the cards. The dealer bowed his head to catch an early glimpse of the color and drew a deep breath and held It. Scissors cut deep- and held out his ha#<L IJe had cut the ten of hearts. The dealer rose and from a drawer In the table counted out two thousand dollars In dust and currency and motioned for the winner to use the scales. The stranger finished counting the money and ihen weighed the bags of dust in his brown hands. . 'They heft like they are enough," he said. "Game closed?" 'Closed until I get another stake," said the dealer, placing the meager residue of cash and dust In a bag to take with him. "You tapped the bank to the limit. It's yours to run If you wish It till I can get another stake." "Maybe I'll wait till you get another stake and then tap the bank again." 'Straight monte, with fifty-dollar limit," wamed the dealer as be turned to go. The stranger walked with him to the door and broke Into "Joe Bowers from Pike." He sang only two lines, his attention being attracted by two men approaching from the eating-house. He stepped back Inside the hall and In a minute Pyrites and Dlnsdale entered. Dinsdale gave him a quick look and observed the bandaged head, and walked down to the Twenty-one table. Pyrites, never given to gambling, hur- * "No, No, M'sieu. Not Here. Ze Game Ees Not for You." ried to the short bar at the end of the room, proclaiming his desire for strong drink. Dlnsdale watched the girl from beneath half-lowered lids for a minute or two and then threw down a greenback. "Pardon, M'sieu, but eet ees not for a gambling man, Take your money." "But I am not a gambling man," protested Dinsdale. "You have ze gambling look, M'sieu. Pardon, If I mistake. Ze monte bank will be running ver' soon." The stranger laughed boisterously and In response to Dlnsdale's questioning glance announced: "The young lady sees the same brand on the two of us, mister. And I've just tapped the monte bank. I'm hanker and dealer. House limit Is fifty. That doesn't interest me. And monte Is a Mow game.*' "Banker and dealer, both, eh?" mused dlnsdale, smiling pleasantly. "And what's your Idea of a good game?" , The stranger estimated Dlnsdale rather shrewdly, and with a drop of the lids Iglanced at the two big beltguns. "Color of the card. Five hundred a guess." "Get to your table. HI help yon pass the time," said Dlnsdale. "La la! Oh, no I M'sieu Is not ze gambling man!" trilled the Twfcntyone dealer. Pyrites at the bar was taking his second drink and talking volubly to the patient bartender. A new deck was brought to the monte table and thoroughly shuffled. "How did you tap the bank?" carelessly asked Dlnsdale as be felt for bis money. "Bet two thousand a card would be red." "Short and sweet. Red ought to be some lucky," mused Dlnsdale, producing a stack of greenbacks. "There's five hundred. Qi^e them a cut, please. * call red." Black came up. The stranger smiled and remarked: 'When I'm In luck It sticks clear through. Some paper money you're toting. You ought to be the 'greenback man' I've been hearing so much about." - "Deal a card I Bad." called Dlnsdale. Black came up. The dealer said, "I don't think you've got enough of the green to last till all these dark cards run out. But of course the deal ends when either color is exhausted." 'That wasn't specified, but let It go--Red." Red came up--a diamond. Dlnsdale swept In the money and asked: "How did you hurt your head?" "Think I'm a newspaper?" queried the dealer, smiling frostily. "We're playing at gambling." "Red." A club showed. Pyrites was showing the effect of his hurried drinks and was now leaning his back against the bar, glass in hand, and beaming joyously on the monte table. Impartially taking the whole room into his confidence he boasted tof his discoveries and reached the glass over his shoulder to be refilled. While he talked two dark and two red cards showed. "Red!" barked Dlnsdale. He won. "Red!" Again he won. "I'm even," be said as the dealer waited for him to name the color. "And quitting?" sneered the dealer. Dlnsdale shook his head. "It's slow. It tires me. Two thousand on a single card. What say?" The^-otber stared up Into the steady eyes/for a fraction of a minute, then shrugged his shoulders and lightly said: , "All In a lifetime. Til go you." He counted out two thousand dollars in greenbacks. With a dry laugh Dlnsdale observed: "They'll be calling you the 'greenback man' next: But I'll be mighty glad to get them. Never could get enough greenbacks." The stranger took the deck In his left hand, poised thumb and finger ready to deal a card. Dinsdale quietly Informed him: "I couldn't help seeing the bottom card. I'm sticking to red." And his hand fell to his side. The stranger's eyes dilated until they reminded Dinsdale of the yellow orbs of .Sitting Bull, the owl, and for a moment he seemed to hesitate. Then he slowly turned the top card. It was the ace of diamonds. With his left hand Dinsdale pulled In the money, his gaze never quitting the set face across the table. Pyrites, erowlng noisy at the bar, alone broke the breathless silence of the room. Leaning back and clasping his hands before him the dealer said: "I don't mtnd your winning, rd rather win, but it doesn't give me heart trouble to -lose. But I do« mind your telling me you know the bottom card." "I thought It right I should tell you," serenely returned Dlnsdale, now standing erect, the money still clutched In his left hand, bis right hand hovering over a gun. "It was the same as saying I was thinking of dealing the bottom card, continued the dealer, speaking very slowly. "Now Just to prove what kind of a bluffer you are I'll bet fifteen hundred, about my whole pile, that you can't name the bottom card." Ugly lines drew Dlnsdale's face Into a snarl. "Keep your hands away from that deck," he sharply commanded. "I'll take that bet, but some one besides you must turn the deck over. . Pick whoever you please In this room." "D--n you 1" softly murmured the dealer*. Pyrites advanced toward them, shouting In a raucous voice: There was an old woman, had thn« NM. Jotbua, Jame® and John. "Pick your man!" snapped Dlnsdale. 'Til aBk the young lady to turn the deck over," called out the dealer In a loud voice. Josh was hues and James was drowned. And John was lost sad never was loul howled Pyrites. "Excuse," coldly refused tha French girt. "Here you, Paper Dolls! Turn this deck over after this man has named the card," hoarsely called the dealer to Scissors. World'* Smallest Book in Library of Congress Some of the Interesting curiosities j at the Library of Congress In Washington are: the smallest book In-/the world, the longest printed work In the world and the largest book In America. The smallest book Is a copy of the Rubalyat of Omar Khayyam. The longest work Is the Tu Shu Chinese encyclopedia, while the largest book In America Is James Audubon's "Birds «f America." The midget Ilubaiyat Is only threeeighths of an inch wide and one-eighth of an inch thick. Letters In the book, even on the title pare, are so small that they can be read only with the aid of a powerful magnifying glass. Its 48 * pages of Japan paper are daintily stitched and bound In green paper. The printing of the mammoth Tu Shu Chinese encyclopedia has been called the "greatest typographical feat In the world." Three years were required to print Its 6,280 volumes with their 800,000 pages. The table of contents alone Is forty volumes. A copy of this voluminous work printed at Shanghai was given to the United States by the emperor of China In 1908. Audubon's "Birds of America," the giant American book. Is forty Inches long, twenty-six and one-half Inches wide and two and one-fourth inches thick. So large are Its pages that on one of them a turkey Is produced In life-size. The set comprises four volumes. They are bound In red horsehlde and were presented to the library by Audubon himself In 1827.---Detroit News. 1 And that was the ead at tin ttNe Joshua, Jamea and John. • Scissors timidly sidled to •the table, his eyes blinking ^ervously. "The bottom card Is the seven of spades," spoke up Dlnsdale. Taking great care not to touch the cards with his hands Scissors Inserted the points of his scissors under the deck and tipped the pack over. Dlnsdale had named it correctly. The stranger pushed back his chair and said: "If you. had offered me ten thousand, or a million to name It, I couldn't have done It." There was an old woman, had tlUM sens. Joshua, James and John, roared Pyrites, slapping a hand on the dealer's shoulder and waving a hand at Dlnsdale. The ferocity slowly left the stranger's face. With a reckless laugh he lifted his head and commenced singing: • t nsed to lo»» > m there, and titer called her Salljr Black. "Hangtown and Spanish Dry. Diggings. Fall of 'fifty-one!" rejoiced Pyrites. "But you ain't 9ld enough to have been out there at that slnglng." "But a certain old-man Is, who still sings those songs and taifeht them to me," said the stranger. Springing to his feet he said to Dlnsdale, "You've cleaned me out. Is there any fighting blood between us? .If so, we can step outside." "Shame for two young fellows to spill blood," protested Pyrites. "Let every one be happy." Dlnsdale voted for peace by saying: "Don't take my talk too seriously. You're a stranger to me. I was only doing what you probably would have done. If the house will Join me?" The house advanced as a man. "I'm called Pete Dinsdale by those who know me the longest," he continued as he and the stranger followed the crowd to the bar. "Those who know me the least call me 'greenback man.'" "My Black hills handle is "Easy.' Easy come, easy go,' you know. I'm glad we don't street-fight. I'd have to kill you then. I'm a whale with a gun." So am I," heartily retorted Dlnsdale. "I never met up with as good a gun fighter as I am. Lucky both of us prefer whisky. One or both would sure be killed. If stake you." Thanks. I'm nearly broke, but not enough so to take from the man who won from me. When we meet again I'm coining after your hide. I don't want any favors standing between us. Where'U I find you when I get relined?" Deadwood City. San Juan Joe's place. Come heavy loaded." Their'glasses traveled to them over the heads of the first comers. While he was drinking Dlnsdale was cofiscious of someone tugging his arm. turned Impatiently and looked down Into Scissors' Innocuous face. No pictures now, old man," be curtly said. "But I'm remembering you did me a favor. I owe you & rich stake. I'll settle later." "San Juan said to give It to you the first time I caught you alone. Guess you won't ever be alone, and I've been waiting here away from my business for two days," whispered Scissors. "All right. Hand over." "It's in your right-hand pocket." With that Scissors backed away. Taking advantage of the boisterous merriment Dlnsdale fell back a few steps and pulled a paper from his coat pocket. He opened It and read : "Everything o. k. Come back with Scissors. Job ready very soon.--S. J. J." Dinsdale got Pyrites by the collar and dragged him to one side. "Are you too drunk to understand plain English?" he asked. "I'm sober enough to locate twoounce diggings within fifty rod of here blindfolded," proudly assured the prospector. Dlnsdale growled In disgust. "See here. Try to remember thts wheft you wake up tomorrow morning. I'm .off for Deadwood City. Word from Sun Juan Joe. I make you a present of the grub-stake. Lay off that whisky." "Lord! I hate to have you go! Stay till tomorrow and we boys will have some fun tonight. That new cuss knows the same old songs that I do- There was an old woman, had three sons-- "Drop It 1 Listen to me carefully. Sober up. Keep your mouth shut. The mall ftho calls himself 'Easy* Isn't as easy as he pretends. \'m positive he's the man I cracked over the head with my guO barrel up on the divide." you're brok^ I'll "About thirty-five hundred more than I had when I left Deadwood, Took that much from the fellow with the bu'sted head. Tm remembering that I owe you a prise for tipping tha deck." "I wasn't thinking of that I knew you'd treat me all right Any one could have tipped the deck, but a wakan wltshasha is better than a common man," gravely said Scissors. "I've learned things from being around gambling places. Only a road agent, or a gambler would bet so much mon^y on one card like that man did." "I bet like he did," reminded Dinsdale, his eyes glinting. "You're no road agent" promptly declared Scissors. "You haven't any partners up here. You may be a train robber. It's no business of mine If you're one or the other. But that "inn back there worries me. He's no gambler or I'd have seen him In Deadwood. A man willing to bet as he did wouldn't hang around Rapid City, drinking Calvin's whisky and singing his foolish songs. Not being a gambler, nor a miner, he must be an agent As robbing folks is his business ho Dincdale Counted Six. won't knuckle down to losing so much money, nor letting you get away with what was your own. If I was a cardman I'd bet we'll be held up inside the next ten miles." Dinsdale was frankly concerned, although he tapped his guns and grimly declared: "Let them come. You Just lay low and when they heave In sight leave It to me to receive them." "My old owl would know better than to make such talk. He'd know the agents would never give you a chance to pull a gub. The man with the sore head will tell his mates--and he has men within call--that It'll be dangerous to give you a show. We're fools to be following this road to be overtaken. Your horse Is tired. Mine Isn't much good. They've got the best horseflesh In the hills. This minute they're probably pounding after us, taking it easy so's not to overhaul us till we're quite a few miles from Rapid City." Dlnsdale glanced over the winding back, trail, then said: "I'm not a fool even If I do wear two belt-guns. We'll swing one side If you think best. I have quite a lot of money on me in greenbacks and a decent pot of gold. What's more, San Juan Joe Is In a hurry to see me on a business deal. I can run Just as smart as I can fight." "Good! Now you make a medicine talk!" cried Scissors; and within the next quarter of a mile they turned dowp a narrow gorge that ran east They followed this for less than two miles and then swung back until they were moving parallel to the stage road and separated from it by a long ridge. Pointing to the ridge Scissors announced : "From the t°P that one can look down on the stage road. If we had time to spare we could get up there and see If the soreheaded man and his friends are after us." "We'll take time. I'd like to be sure If that's Mr. Basy's game," declared Dlnsdale. Scissors turned lb toward the ridge and galloped to a clump of spruce and secured his horse. Dinsdale did likewise. As they neared the crest Scissors directed: "Take off your hat and play Indian. Just below us the road narrows. Stage drivers call It the 'bottle.' Maybe Sorehead hasn't had time to fetch his friends ulong. Maybe they're taking It comfortable and planning to Jump us after we've camped. We'll see." They cautiously lifted their heads and pulled aside the grass. They watched for a minute and then beheld some objects rapidly advancing Into the middle distance. They were horsemen and riding furiously. Dlnsdale counted six. From their elevated position it was Impossible to distinguish one from another except the man who rode next to the leader. 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