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TOOUUCH GOODLUCK
By FLORA MILUGAN.
[Copyright, 1909. by American Pr<>8s Ai?o
clatlon.)
"I maintain." wild Brown, "that life |
Is n Kftmo of curds. It consists) of two |
parts-skill atui luck."
"How About tln> condition of life
into which on? Is Itorn?" said Jones.
"That's a part of the luck. A man Is
born Into ccrtaln clrcuin.it anccs In lieu
of cards and certain ability In lieu of
skill."
"And Is opportunity a part of the
cards?"
"Yes; that Is to Ih? counted with j
luck."
"Suppose one has plenty of skill, but <
no opiMirtunlty."
"Ho Is tu the same tlx as a skillful
player whoso cards are bad."
??Gentlemen," said a needy Individual
at a neighboring table? they were lu
a cafe "pardon the Interruption, but I
couldn't help hearing your conversa
tion. and 1 am Interested In Its pur
port. Permit mo to add one state
ment to those you have made. It Is
this? a man's game may be spoiled j
by too much luck."
"That Is his own fault." said Brown, j
"He shouldn't lose his head."
"One may be ruined by good luck
and not Ih> at the slightest fault."
"That statement on Its face is in- j
correct, a contradiction," replied Brown. |
"I can give you a case."
"IV> so." said Jones. "If you satisfy
us In the matter you may order the
best dinner the house affords and I
will pay for It."
"With a bottle of champagne as my ]
contribution," supplemented Brown.
"Done," said the stranger. "Had It
not been for too much good luck I [
should now ls> dining and wining oth
ers Instead of accepting your bounty, j
giving you nothing but an Illustration i
In return. When 1 was a young man
my father, dying, told me that his
brother, my uncle, who was a mil
lionaire bachelor. Intended to make me
his heir and 1 must be very clrcum- 1
sped In my treatment of him. I had
sense enough to see the situation j
and"?
"Overdid It." Rrown put In. "You
disgusted III in, and your"?
"Not at all." the stranger went on.
"I grew very fond <V him and did
not need to pretend to be Interested
In him. He was smart enough to per
ceive this, and we grew nearer together
every day. The old gentleman was
very fond of playing jtokcr hands for
a small stake. Every night before he
went to bed he Insisted on my sitting
down with him for an hour at this di
version."
"I see." said Brown. "Yon were silly
enough to let him win, and It angered
him."
"Or to win his money," added Jones.
"I must do either one or the other,
gentlemen, and so I did In the end, but
I shall come to that In a moment. For j
a time the same wavered Itotween us. '
Sometimes my uncle and sometimes I
would t>e ahead. Hut one night, the
fatal night." the stranger moaned, "1
hold a full hand of noes against my
uncle's full hand of kings. Naturally
wo l*>th hot high? that Is, for a game
Intended only to help pass an hour
before going to bed? and of course 1
won.
"The next deal fell to my uncle, and :
neither of us got more than a single
pair. 1 then dealt and gave my uncle
four tons and m.vsolf a royal flush. I
did not bet high, but when I showed
down my uncle looked surprised. His
next deal was unimportant, but at my !
next 1 gave him three aces and my- )
self four queens."
"Oh. well," protest oil Brown, "If a
man has a mind to do that sort of '
thing ho can't blame his luck."
"I was neither. I knew nothing
about putting cards where 1 wanted
them. Had I known I should have given
the winners to my uncle. I had sim
ply struck a remarkable run of luck.
I was horrified at li and would have
boon delighted to change It, for 1 saw
that my uncle was lieglnning to think
that I was cheating him. I took ad
vantage of one low hand ho dealt me
to l*ot high, but only made matters
worse, for he hold lower cards than 1. (
"And so it wont on. Every time I
dealt I saw my uncle watching my
fingers with a terrible suspicion on his
face."
"Why." interrupted Brown, "didn't
you l>et low V
"So I did on one occasion. 1 held
three tens and l?et a men' trifle. My
uncle hold four nines, and when he
saw that I had stayed out, he holding
his only hie hand, he assumed that I .
did so with a knowledge of where the
cards lay.
"And so the game went on, I always
topping him. seeing a fortune pass
a way from me and having no power to
stop the luck that was ruining me.
now I wished that I had learned
dealing cards professionally so that I
could have given my uncle lietter cards
than mine! At last he rose from the
table and. pointing to the door, said:
" 'Go. and never let me see your face
again!"
"The next day he changed his will,
and a week later he was dead."
The stranger ceased to speak. Rrown
looked at Jones, and Jones looked at
Brown. Then they called the proprie
tor and paid the l>et. But they did not I
remain to see the stranger eat. As j
they passed out he followed them with
a corner of his left eye, but said noth
ing.
"What lesson." said Jones, "do you
draw from this episode?"
"That It Is singular how some men
who have been given high cards In the
game of life will play them for such
small stakes."
"Just ?o," replied Jones.
A SINGULAR CASE.
By P. A. MITCHEL.
(Copyright, 1909. by American Pr??i Asso
ciation.]
"Are you detectives as smart at you
appear to be lu novels?" I asked of
one who had served a long while at
the business.
"The smart detective in real life
usually gets left. Instead of letting
the case work Itself out he forms the
ories and tit* facts to them. It'a the I
methodical detective who wins. He
works on the lines of what would nat
urally come nbout, narrowing proba
bilities till he drives the remaining
few through one hole. The Interest
ing features In detective work arc
the happening*. I have known many
singular circumstances to betray a
criminal. 1 knew of one case where a
man was brought to the gallows by a
twig growing up out of the ground,
carrying a key with It."
"Please explain."
"My chief culled me Into his private
office one day and showed me a shoot
of some kind of bush. As a twig it
had come up out of the ground, its
tip running through the elliptical Iron
end of a key, which It carried up some
Ave or six feet, growing around the
key at the same time. He told mo J
that some boys had found It In a
thicket, and beneath It under an older j
growth lay the tnolderlng body of a
man. The chiefs theory was that the j
key had been In the man's pocket and
as the clothing decayed the key fell to
the ground. A twig had sprouted un
der It through the rltliwc, and as It
grew of course the key came up with
It.
"It was to be supposed that the body
had been hidden there and the man
had been murdered. I was put to
work on the case and began, as I al
ways do, methodically. That meant
in this case to Inquire into all dlsap
liearances as far back us possible. You
may not !>e aware how many people
will dlsap]>ear within a given time. I
found that from tho village near by
where the body waa found and its
surroundings no less than six persons
had disappeared in ten years and had
never been accounted for. I tried my
key on the doors of the houses, so
far as I could And them, where the
missing ones had lived, but It fitted
none of them.
"At Inst I hoard of one rotor Moxon, j
who lmd lived alone on a small farm
In the neighborhood, having one hired ;
man. Some ton years back tho man, |
Ik Colbtirn, Rare out that Moxon had j
sold him his farm on easy payments }
and gone to Alaska. Colburn hr?d ,
worked tho farm for several years,
then deserted It. I learned that his
desertion had occurred shortly after
some one of Moxon's relatives had ar
rived to look up his kinsman. But the
farm had remained unoccupied ever
since Oolburn's disappearance.
"Somehow as soon as I hoard this
story It struck me that I had got a
clew to the mystrry. I went to the I
Moxon farm and put the key Into the
look of the front door. It was too j
small. Going round to the roar, I tried |
It on the kitchen door and unlocked ;
It as easily as was possible for a rusty
key. From that moment I knew that
the body found by the boy* In the
thicket was that of Peter Moxon. As
I told you In the beginning, the Inter
est In the case wasn't owlug to any
shrewdness of mine, but to the raising
up of a key out of the soil by a grow
ing twig. One might fancy the little
sprout the finger of an avenging angol.
"The next thing was to And Colburn.
This, of course, was a mere matter of
search. Hunting for a known person i
Is quite a different matter from hunt
ing for an unknown person. The find- j
lag of a known person I consider a
mutter of certainty? that Is, If yott go
about It right and follow It to the end.
just as by a given numl>er of questions
one may always guess an assumed ob- ,
Ject. Of course I assume that the per- j
son to be found Is alive.
"That's the theory of tt. In practice
It may not pay to make a search of the
whole world. Bot my experience Is !
that criminals of the unprofessional
kind don't go or don't stay far from
the scene of their crime. 1 was order- I
od to got police reports from that part j
of tho state, and If Colburn had gone \
off limits tho matter was to be given
up. 1 sent out a description of the |
man, but without success. He had
gone too far.
"if one can ftnd a woman In whom a
criminal has l?een Interested there's al
ways n chance of finding him. There
was such a woman In Colburn's lift, j
and I gave orders at the village post- ,
office that any mall coming for her
should be examined. Six months after
I gave the order a letter from Colburn
to his friend was handed roe gtvlng his
whereabouts.
"Well, I had the man arrestwl. But ,
I hadn't any proof against him except
what was remotely circumstantial. No
body had seen him kill Moxon. Indeed,
the only proof existing that Moxon had j
boon killed was a key that had grown
on a bush. No man could even be In- ;
dieted, much less convicted, on such j
evidence. But when we know what
we can't prove there are ways of get
ting the criminal to give himself away.
I took the prisoner to tho spot where
the body had been found and showed
him the key, telling him at the same
time that It would fit Moxon's kitchen I
door. It needed but this bit of bluff
to break down a man with crime on
M* conscience. He confessed and was
hanged.
"No, it isn't the shrewdness of the de
tective that makes detectlva work in- |
foresting; It's the ways Providence In
vents to bring a guilty man to Justice. ,
What could be more remsrkable than
that tiny twig taking a key that bad '
fallen frc.m a murdered man's pocket
snd pointing with It to the murderer?" |
THE STUPK3 GOAT.
Why HI* Picture Wat Appreciated at
tha College Lecture,
"It's more tun than n circus," wild
the lecturer, "to tnlk to n crowd of
college boy ?, but you don't nl way*
know where the fun In until nfter your
lecture Is over. One night I delivered
n lecture to the senior class of a New
England college . The subject of my
talk was wild animals, nnd I lllnstrat
ed It with a largo number of lantern
slides. One of thwe picture* was n
photograph of n Itocky roountnln goat.
When tbta gentleman's portrait waa
thrown on the screen 1 said, giving hla
name, 'The goat la a very stupid ani
mal.'
"Instantly I was Interrupted by wild
shrieks and yells of Joyous applause- -
cheers, clapping, stamping ? fellows
grinning at each other and slapping
each other on the back and yelling.
That's so,' and 'Correct,' until It was
Impossible for me to go on, and the
professors had to restore order. This
they Anally succeeded In doing, but as
I went on trying to talk about the !
goat pandemoafnm broke loose again <
and again.
"Of course I did not know where
the fun was. 1 tried to think If 1 had j
said anything backward or made some
unconscious blunder, for I am rather
absentmlnded. but 1 could not recall j
anything that I had done wrong, so 1
could only grin feebly and wait each j
time until the professors had obtained
quiet and then go on with my talk.
As soon as the lecture was over I
asked the president where the fun
was. He smiled Joyously as he ex
plained:
"'The freshmen In this college are 1
called goats. That's all.' "
An Anatomical Wonder.
A certain highly roav>ected congress- |
man makes many queer blunders of
speech. A constituent, visiting him re- j
eently, complained of the shabblness i
of a pair of Ink stained crash trousers |
that tie bad on.
"A man of your position," said the j
constituent reproachfully, "ought to
wear handsomer trousers than those." j
The congressman, offended, answer ;
ed reproachfully:
"My trousers may be shabby, but
they cover a warm and honest heart." ?
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