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PREMONITION |
By GEORGE V. WILLIAMS.
[Copyright. 1509. by American rresn Asso
elation. J
We were sitting In a club at Wash
ington talking about llfo on what In
the sixties wore called "the plains.'
when the natural state was straggling
against civilization, when the savage
was not yet extinct there and when
the buffalo was bucking against the
locomotive. There was 'fotu Sherlkle.
Dave Boggs. Tern Durham and my
self. We had all lived beyond the
Missouri river tn those halcyou days.
Some of us had been -worse than we
should have been, but we made a fair
average sample of the population. Oue
of our number had readied the United
States senate, another was a repre
sentative. while a third was a big
land dealer in (be region of which we
were speaking. The fourth. Tom Dur
ham. was a prominent clergyman.
"Do any of you remember Phoebe
Rusk?" asked Sherlkle. "who kept a
boarding house' first at Julesburg, then
at Laramie, following the Onion Pa
cific as It made new terminals?"
All owned to a remembrance of 'her
except the Rev. Mr. Durham, "who
maintained silence.
"The biggest piece of blind luck 1
ever heard of." Sherikle continued,
"she furnished. "You know how she
used to play poker with the boys?
She made mouuo' regularly at tavern
keeping, but she made more by poker.
She was a jolly, good nntured. good
hearted woman whom everybody
liked and was considered perfectly
straight In every respect She could
spot a regular gambler and would nev
er play with any of them.
"Well, this Is tie story I heard about
her great stroke 01" luck, and I got It
from one of the -men at tlx* table, who
had no interest in lying about It A
number of her bonrders sat down to
play one night in ber parlor and asked
her to join them. She said she'd rath
er not She didn't want to win their
money aud somehow she felt that
she'd "be awfully lucky. She could al
ways tell, she said, when she was go
ing to win big. But the boys persuad
ed her. and she took a hand.
"Talk as you please., there's a lot in
these feelings that some people have
about something that's golnp to hap
pen. I've been there myself. When L
was developing my claim at Deadwood
1 knew the day before 1 struck the i
vein that made me rich tiiat 1 was In
for a strike. There was no Indication ?
of it any more than there had been
when I began to work with my pick.
Nevertheless I knew it. I mention
this to show you Just how Phoebe
Rusk felt.
"There were half a Cozen of them in
the party. A youngster of eighteen,
a tenderfoot from the east -wanted to
take a hand, but Phoebe wouidu't go
in unless he stayed out. So the banker
wouldn't give him any chips. The
cards had been dealt five or six times
when the game was opened with a
Jackpot. It happened to be one of
those occasions when everybody had
a good hand. The pile on the table
kept growing till at last Phoebe called
a halt She said she didn't want her
house to get the reputation of running
such a big ?ame. One man drew two
cards, and the rest all except Phoebe,
stood pat Phoebe said:
"'If 1 don't draw the card to fill my
hand is worth nothing. If I do I'll
win the pot. It's nothing more or less
than a showdown, so 1 don't mind let
ting you see my hand.'
"She laid her cards face up o> the ta
ble. There were the eight, nine, ten
and Jack of spades and the king of
diamonds. Throwing out the king, she
said to the dealer: 'Give me cither
the seven or queen of spades, which
ever you like. I'm dead sure you 11
give me one or the other.'
?The dealer dealt her the top card
on the pack. She turned it over, and
it 'was the seven of spades. Sho had
a straight flush and won the pot.
"That broke up the game. None of
them would play longer against a wo
man who knew she would win and
did win."
Those who heard the story were |
quite sure that there are peoplo so
delicately organized, in certain respects
that they can feel such presentiments
as the one given. The Rev. MS\ Dur
ham alone made no comment
"What do you think, pareon?" asked
Sherlkle. "Do you believe in such
foresight?"
"Not in that case."
"Why not?"
The clergyman, hesitated- and' at last
said:
"We are all old plainsmen, a ad 1
know no one of us would do anything
to injure the other, ea I don't mind
giving you my confidence. Besldc-j, I
make no secret that 1 was an un
righteous man before m$ conversion,
though I don't like, after thirty years
in the ministry, to refer to special in
stances in that life I have since he4d
in horror. I was. as you know, at
that time a professional gambler and
was a member of the poker party at
Phoebe Rusk's, though I wasD't known
there as a gambler. I'hoebe also was
crooked on cards, and ber boacdlng
house was really a gambling house.
She and I stood in together. When
she called for one of the cards she
wanted she was quite sure she would
get it. for 1 had dealt her the cards
she had, knowing wtyit they were,
and bad the seven of spades ready to
complete her band."
"That's the way." I remarked, "that
presentiments usually come about If
we could uncover the cause."
i t ?
BOLL'S CLOTHES
By CHARLOTTE SHERWOOD.
(Copyright, 190a. by American Press Asso
ciation. J
There are more clandestine affairs
between the sexes among the Spanish
than any other people for the reason
that no courtship except In the pres
ence of witnesses Is permitted. In
Spain young men and girls are not al
lowed to come within each other's
reach, the girls sitting on balconies at
tached to the dwelling and the young
men standing below. There they may
chat as they please. But In Brazil the
lines are even stronger drawn.
In the Grljalva family at Rio de
Janeiro was a pretty maiden of fifteen.
Inez by name. Spanish girls develop
young, but Inez did uot appear to fol
low the rule. She had scarcely given
up her doll, and as for noticing the
young wen, ber mother, who wished
'her to be married at the proper time,
like other girls, could not get her to
have anything to do with any of them.
One day a youth of nineteen, Juan
Bustamente. called at the house, (.sked
for Sonor Grljalva and made a formal
application for the hand of little Inez.
Though young. Bustamente was a de
sirable parti, and the Grljalvas had no
objection to the match. The applica
tion quite took away the breath of the
girl's parents. It seemed to her mother
that a wax doll would bo as well fitted
to tike charge of a house and rear a
family as Inez. She was surprised also
that any young man could have seen
enough of her daughter, who had been
kept uuder vigilant watch in the nurs
ery. to wish to marry her. She asked
Inez Jf she had eve* seen Jnan Busta
mente and whore, but Inez gave such
childlike answers, made such Innocent
contradictions, appeared so oblivious
to what It all meant, that her mother
gave up trying to get any reliable In
formation. She made up her mind,
however, that it would never do to
permit one who had not yet left child
hood to be married. Young Busta
mente was told that he might call at
tlie house as a suitor, but marriage for
the present was out of the question.
The following Sunday evening the
family took position in the drawing
room wJth the young lady, and the
lover was adinltfe^ to flo the courting.
Inez spent the evening cutting figures
out of black paper, a work at, which
she nns skillful. Juan did all the
talking that could be pumped out of
him to Slgnorn Grljalva. After half
an hour of this kind of counting, dur
ing which he invited his liancce,
through her mother, to go with him to
the theater on the next Sunday even
ing and received on acceptance to the
invitation, be took his departure .with
evident relief.
It may be supposed by American
girls *bat a visit to the theater would
give the couple a chance to get ac
quainted. This could not be In Brazil.
When the appointed evening arrived
Slgnor Grljalva. his wife on* Ms arm.
the other members of the family fol
lowing. formed a bodyguard to Jtltle
Inez, who walked In the middle of the
group. Juan brought up the rear at
the procession alone. After the play
the girl was conducted home In the
same manuer.
And so the courtship went on. The
father intrusted the whole matter to
the mother, and the mother was wait
ing till her daughter should leave
childish ways and act like a woman.
But Inez still preferred to play "hide
and seek" or "blind rant's buff" rather
than dance or go to bullfights. There
was a bit of comfort In this, because
the usual watchfulness did not seem
necessary? not that the rules were re
laxed. but that a constant spying was
deemed useless.
Senora Grljalva was in her daugh
ter's room one day when Inez was out.
Everywhere was evidence that the
girl was still a child. Rummaging for
something In a bureau, the mother
came upon some clothes evidently fit
ted for a huge doll. The senora sighed.
"Will she never We fitted for a wife?"
Then she came upon a sandalwood
box. It was locked. What need had
the child for locking anything? Senora
Grljalva fetched a bunch of keys and
hunted among them till she found a
tiny one to fit the lock. Lifting the lid.
she saw on top of some trinkets a pa
per. She opened and read It. She was
thunderstruck. It was a certificate of
marriage between Juan Bustamente
and Inez Grljalva celebrated about a
month before the young man applied
for the young lady's hand.
Senora Grljalva stood for a moment
paralyzed. But there are certain log
ical connections which women get
very quickly and without following the
steps of reasoning involved. Senora
Grljalva pulled out the drawer con
taining dolls' clothes with a Jerk, seiz
ed the articles, opening them one after
the other and held them up before her.
Now she saw It all. They were not
dolls' clothes. They were made for a
child.
That evening there was a council
held In the Grijalvn family, which re
sulted In the public announcement that
Juun Bustamente and Inez Grljalva
r.ould be married immediately and go
on a wedding trip for the bride's
health to the United States. Indeed,
the doctors advised- an Immediate de
parture. and there would be no time
except for an informal wedding. In
trulb. there was no wedding at all.
The young couple sailed immediately
and did not return for two years. They
brought with them s girl as advanced
for her age as her mother had been
backward.
Senora Grijalva has determined to
bring up her younger daughter in the
United States, where young men and
womeu are taught to rely upon them
selves and where there is no premium
nu deception, no incentive to eat stolen
fruit.
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