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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1947-12-04, Page 6vV , Y �! A C K S 0 N m C 0 t_ E` Synopsis Chapter XIV: Michael Valdez sets out for Coronado to trace Flash Conroy. a notorious gamb- ler. Valdez finds Into at the poker table in his own saloon, ":Flash" Conroy's Palace. CHAPTER XV As Michael Valdez moved slowly across the barroom floor now, the gambler turned to face him, and for a tense moment neither of them spoke. Then Conroy flashed his white teeth in what might or :night not have been a friendly grin and said: "How's tricks, cowboy? It's a treat to see you around here. Didn't know you often moved so far may from the h.,,rder." "Everything's fine." Valdez drawled and slightiy moved his charro vest so that his well-filled money belt came into plain sight. "I've just cone into a little dinero, and thought this aos jar t as good a plane as any for nie to invest it so it would bring me in more." Int t it, eh? You'd like to run it up ' Conroy's full lips quirked and again his white teeth showed. "Certainly, certainly;" he said affably. "Draw up a chair and have yourself a stack of chips, 1 figure we can give you a run for your money." As Michael Valdez drew up a chair to the table and sat down he cast a swift, comprehensive, but apparently idle glance around the room. He wanted to single out Con- roy's henclmncn, and he did that with one sweep of his eyes. They were some of those ]calf -breeds loung- ing at the bur, of course. * * * But he gave no single sign of interest as he sat down and care- lessly dumped the contents of the money belt onto the table in front of him. Flash Conroy began method- ically counting out red, white, and blue chips. Valdez called for a new deck and began to re -shuffle the cards. Flash Conroy accepted his cards for the cut and deal as though this man who had just sat in at the game were an unusual visitor, instead of the spectacular one every man present knew trim to be. The five other players in the game also accepted the bit of melodrama, but shortly re- alized that whatever was the reason for the unexpected entry of this man from the border country, they were going to have to play a heads- up game in order to stand even a fighting chance with him. The game went on quietly, though, and men filially relaxed, The wins and losses see -sawed back and forth between the various players, while Michael Valdez studied them sur- reptitiously. Before the game had been going on fifteen minutes Vadlez got a pretty definite idea of the six men facing him around the table. The two directly opposite were obviously well-to-do ranchers who would be able to stand any reasonable losses. at the Palace gaming tables. A 'nen sitting beside the ranchers looked like a drifter who appeared, to have made a stake. either in a lucky mining prospect or in some other quick turn -over. He probably was ripe for Flash Conroy's plucking. And if later he should be found dead in some alley, with all his motley miss- ing, there would be no explanation of that forthcoming. * * The other two men in the game besides Conroy himself and Michael Valdez were plainly Con- roy decoys. That was definitely proved a few minutes after Valdez had pigeonholed them in Itis mind, When they and Conroy swung into action tiring to whipsaw Valdez. Dot they did not succeed. Ile was ready for them, and after that play he wen, cot methodically raking in his winnings and pushing away his losses with cool indifference. His stake had been it -hulled in half when Valdez decided that the show -down be had come here to force tonight might as well come now as later. He had a gond audi- ence too, now, for the other games had been suspended and alt of the former participants were gathered around the poker table whore the owner of the Palace himself played. Better still, the drifter had reached id, limit and had dropped int of the game. \ elder. knew positively the time had come when, on Conroy's deal, the gambler hastily shuffled and flipped nut the cards without offer- ing them for a cut. Picking up his cards, one at a time, Valdez saw that his first four cards were three kings and an ace. It diel not sur- prise him, therefore. when he picked up his fifth card and saw that it was his fourth king. Valdez never blinked as betting Double Crochet Hair Band Materials: Pearl Cotton, Size 5, 1 ball each of Red, Green and Yellow . , , Steel Crochet Hook No. 7. 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It was he who left on record the best known verse in the Bible, "For God so loved the world, that Ise gave his only begotten • Son, that whoso- ever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." The words translated loge or char- ity occur in his' writings 120 times. ** * The lesson teaches us, '-Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world." We must use the things of the world but we must not set our affection upon these things which are doomed to perish. Money is neces- sary but the love of it is "the root of all evils." She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth." Your Handwriting and You. Alex 5 S. Arnott What Shall 1 Write About? Many of my readers express re- gret in not knowing what to write about when requesting an analysis of their handwriting. Other readers write, "I do not know whether or not you will be able to read my handwriting for there are times when I cannot read it thyself." What you write about in your letter has little consequence in making an analysis of your writing. The important thing in analyzing script for character ana- Iysis is the strokes you use in mak- ing the script. Itsniakes no differ- ence whether you write with a steel pen or a fountain°pen or even a goose quill. It is the formation of the strokes and the contour of the letters and numbers that reveal one's characteristics. personal ten- dencies and habits. The implements or tools of writing do not enter into the analysis for the script may even be written by a person with artificial hands; in extraordinary cases, by a boy or a girl born with- out hands having learned to write by holding a pen between the teeth or between the toes. Whatever the method is, the analysis is made from the formation of the strokes and not from the method used to make the strokes. If your handwriting is not what you would like it to be, there should be no reason for regret. Your writ- ing is one way of expressing thought, and what you think, you will write. It is not what you write, it is how you write that counts. Anyone meshing a more complete analysis please send self-addressed stamped envelope to BOX d, room 421, i3 ddclaide St. nen, 7 arouto. There is no charge for this service. before the draw opened up, and the players warmed up as it went round and round the table. A sizable sum of money, when the chips had all been tossed in, clattered upon the table. Finally Valdez found himself running down to the last of the thirty-two-thottsand-dollar fund he had brought with him for this er- press purpose. Conroy, dealing, was scatted to the right of Valdez, One of Conroy's players sat on the othersideof the tall wanderer from the border coun- try, and next to that than sat one of the ranchers. The other Conroy man was across the table from Michael Valdez. Finally, as the betting became steeper and steeper, Flash Conroy dropped out. Valdez, who lsad opened the pot, checked the bet to the house player who sat at his left hand. The man bought more chips; A good. portion of Ilse new stack of chips went into the center of the table as the man opened the betting. *. Again the pets went around, but the two ranchers had reached their limit, and with the high wagers being made they bad also lost con- fidence in the cards they held. Apparently they would be no good, even bettered after the draw, Simul- taneously they tossed their hands into the center of the table. Conroy and his men had been wait- ing for that moment. Valdez was not surprised when neither of. Flaslt's henchmen raised again. The gambler looked at Michael Valdez and lifted his eyebrows inquiringly. "How many cards, Valdez?" he asked. Michael Valdez thumb fanned his five cards as he appeared to study them a moment more. He whipped out two cards then and tossed than into the discard in the center of the table. "Give me a pair to fill this house," be drawled. (To be Continued) ISSUE 47-1947 On the other hand, 'to love one's brother' is a basic require- ment of a Christian. It is : true that some profess oo be Christians and yet are not eking terms with each other. :wonder how will such ever get along in hea- ven, "But let us, not puzzle , over the answer. for John' says, "V\rhoso hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no 'murderer hath eternal life abiding in hint," The one who doesn't love his brother will not enter. heaven. The love which John considers of such primary importance does not exhaust itself in emotion: It is practical. "Hereby" perceive we the love of God, because hie laid down his life for us: and we ought tc lay down our lives. for the brethren," He pertinently asks, "Whoso bath this world's. good, and Beeth his brother have need, and sliutteth up his bowels of ' compassion from hint, how dwell- eth the love of God in him" Such love is needed in the world.. today. Like the man on the • Jeri- cho road, the world has had a bad beating and, has been robbed. We nations who profess to be Christians must play-' out part in binding up Isis wounds and help- ing to pay p a r for his lece till he is better. It is true that sometimes those whom we have helped be- come our enemies.' But that 'does not alter our obligation to fulfil the law of love. "Let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth;" Let us fol- low after love, Bad Advice Convict Be careful, of these advertising slogans. I took the ad- vice of one of them and got five years for doing so. Friend—Which one was that? Convict—Make money at home. 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