Zurich Herald, 1947-11-20, Page 2Synopsis
Chapter XIV: Michael Valdez
sets out for Coronado to trace
Flash Conroy. a notorious gamb-
ler. Valdez finds him 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 might 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 away from
the border."
"Everything's fine," Valdez drawled
and slightly moved his charro vest
so that his well-filled money belt
came into plain sight. "I've just
conic into a little dincro, and thought
this was just as good a place as any
for me to invest it so it would bring
me in more."
"Invest 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. I 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 henchmen, and he duo • tth
it9 .0 ,
o t nose Tia f=fireeds' loung-
ing at the bar, 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
no unusual visitor, instead of the
spectacular one every man present
knew him 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 playa heads -
up game in order to stand even a
fighting chance with him.
The game went on quietly, though,
and men finally 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 man
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 money 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 his mind,
when they and Conroy swung into
action trying to whipsaw Valdez.
But they did not succeed. He was
ready for them, and after that play
he went on methodically raking in
his winnings and pushing away his
losses :yytb .cool'indifference,
.,had been Avlttttlel."in
half when Valdez decided that the •
show -down he had. come here to
force tonight might as well come
now as later. He had a good audi-
ence too, now, for the other games
had been suspended and all of the
former participants were gathered
around the poker table where the
owner of the Palace himself played.
Better still, the drifter had reached
his limit and had dropped out of the
game.
Valdez knew positively the time
had come when, on Conroy's deal,
the gambler hastily shuffled and
flipped out 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 did 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
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Sunday School Lesson
By Rev. R. Barclay Warren
The Way Of Love
1 John 2:7-11, 1547; 3:13-18.
GOLDEN TEXT — Follow after
charity. -1 Corinthians 14:1,
John, the apostle, has been term-
ed the apostle of love, He was an
affectionate man. It was he who
lay close to the breast of Jesus
at the last supper. It was he who
left on record the best known
verse in the Bible, "For God so
loved the world, that he gave his
only begotten Son, that whoso-
ever believeth in him should not
perish, but have everlasting life."
The words translated love 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."
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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 -thousand -dollar fund he
had brought with him for this cc -
press purpose.
Conroy, dealing, was seated to the
right of Valdez, One of Conroy's
players sat on the other sida of the
tall wanderer from the border coun-
try, and next to that man 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 bad 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 the new stack of chips
went into the center of the table as
the man opened the betting.
* *
Again the bets 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.
Appareuil'ly they would be no good,
even. bet red after the draw, Simul-
taneously 'they tossed their hands
into the center of the table.
Conroy and his nen had been wait-
ing for that moment. Valdez was
not surprised when neither of Flash'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 them
into the discard in tbe center of
the table.
"Give me a pair to fill this
house," he drawled.
(To be Continued)
ISSI•Jl 47-1947
On the other hand, 'to love
one's brother' is a basic require-
ment of a Christian. It is true
that some profesA be Christians
and yet are not aking 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, "Whose
hateth his brother is a murderer:
and ye know that no murderer
bath eternal life abiding in him."
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" He laid
down his life for us: and we ought
tc lay down our lives for the
brethren." . He pertinently asks,
"Wluoso bath" this world's good,
and seeth his brother have need,
and shutteth up his bowels of
compassion from him, 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 his wounds and help-
ing to pay for his keep 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-
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