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by : “Jerry Ogden retells hia -stery of the night which Alex Peterson, picturesqu2 f, inte andrew Ngden, Y philanthropist. Peterson’s brother had been sentenced ‘hang for robbery by a miners’ Peterson, defying the mob, his brother into the Two Peterson's heart stopped—the fourith queen was staring at’ Brothers mine and demands that the hanging be delayed until morn. ' ing. “Jerry,” the brother, admits #tealing Joe Lundy’'s gold and Pe- ‘ferson foresees in Lundy's invita- ‘tion to play poker some ghastly % 1, probably a gamble for 2 the life of “Jerry.” Desperate, Alex CHAPTER 37 5 PAINTED LADIES %, Jerry's voice was broken “vith | emotion, His face was haggard. +%“Lundy's eyes were as hard as rock drills. MacCoy and Richey “%ere staring out of their inhuman at him. Dad was asking him e8lf: Would the miners back him Wwp it he won? They might, if th: were put to_them in a sport. Lundy spread his hand slowly—a card at & time—a straight flush? Zing light. 5 “Lundy's play was said to be €rooked. MacCoy's and Richey's «were known to be, But dad had mever yet met a crooked player he couldw't trip. What should he do? % Suddenly he made up his mind. “ ““This goes for the three of you.' ;.We mld threateningly. ‘One’ crook- zied play and I'll give you a golt fMling.’ “Lundy slapped “Fun'll play? “Dad nodded and Lundy's eyes Bblaged. He asked if there was any _Mmit. Dad sald there wasn't and » Lundy's teeth clicked together. *They looked at cach other. dad « and Lundy, with complete under- e ling in their eyes. Dad knew “'that he was in for the biggest hour "Bt his life and I guess Lundy felt » much the same about himself. “Lundy spread out half a dozen his holster. pair of steel-frymed glasses for card playing and reading. He took them out of a case which he kept in the breast pocket of his gray dress shirt and put them on. ~The lenses of this pair also were eight- sided, but they were much thicker and they magnified his eyes. “Meanwhile, dad had picked out a deck at random, glanced at the seal, broken it, and drawn out the card. He counted and shurfled them and spread them out face down. The hacks were covered with an intricate design of red and white lines, circles, and flourishes. Apparently they were all right and he pushed them towards Lundy. * “Dad always carried a fair-sized roll with him in those days and he peeled off $500 n 50's and tussed it down in front of Lundy. Mac- Coy and Richey pushed across sim- ilar amounts. They had a great deal of money on them. “They agreed that one another's checks should be honored. Lundy shuffled, dad watching the flash of his hands and the fall of the cards. “‘Cut!’ Lundy grunted. “MacCoy did so. Richey siid for- ward a blue chip, Lundy dealing meanwhile. Dad followed the deal closely, but the cards appeared to come straight. Dad held three | nines, an and a jack. He dis- | carded the odd cards. Richey asken { for three, dad for two, MacCoy for {one. Lundy took one himself. | “Dad found a three and a six in |his draw, but ne felt fairly safe |and when Richey, dropped he| | shoved forward stack of reds. | MacCoy w the bhet and Lundy kflum: his cards down in disgust. ex- | posing a couple of pairs. Dad's |three nines were good over the | three fours in MacCoy's hand. and | he drew in the pot. | “For a minute or two dad had | been aware of feet moving behind | him and as he glanced over his shoulder he saw that half a dozen men. Fitch and Webb among them, a | full house. " NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 11 ULLETS} were quiet now. You could feel the tension quickening, dad said. “On Richey's deal dad got two jacks which he drew to. MacCoy asked for three cards, Lundy for two. Richey took three himaself. Dad had caught another jack and on the strengtn of .it bet a atack of reds. MacCoy “raised the stack. Lundy meditated, narrowed his eyes at dad for a moment, then saw the raise. Richey dropped and Peterson contented himself with a call. But dad's jacks had gone back on him — Lundy had filled & straight with his two-card draw. b “Dad said the pressure outside had forced several of the men Into the room. The room began to reek of cut plug and burning kerosene and sweat. There K wasn't much talk, Dad won the third hand. The fourth went to MacCoy, the fifth to Richey. On the sixth hand dad bluffed with a couple of sevens. MacCoy and Richey dropped out early, but Lundy had bet $2,000 before he drew back and dad reaped the pot. At the end of an hour Lundy had lost around $4.000, Richey was about even, MacCoy was a little ahead. “Lundy allowed himself to look disturbed. He leaned forward, drumming on the table. ‘We ain’t gettin’ nowheres.’ “Dad nodded and they stared at each other in silence, Lundy's eyes were hostile, but the look of complete understanding in them was more evident than ever, Lun- dy leaned back. “‘Let's get at it, then.’ “Dad couldn’t mistake his mean. ing.\ Lundy didn't look at either Richey or MacCoy. Dad, of courae, had long since realized that they were as unrelated to the issues ot the game as the wax: figures Lundy had confiscated two weeks before. “MacCoy cut and Lundy lain down five cards to each. Dad had three queens, a trey, an ace. He had a feeling that the game was coming to a head. His eyes leaped to Lundy's, then dropped to his cards again. Richey discardea three, dad the ace and the trey, MacCoy three. * ‘Standin’ whispered. *“*I reckon thesc’ll do me.' dy's voice shook. “Dad drew the two cards towards him, wondering what was Lundy's pat hand? The chances favored a A flush was likely, but A straight flush pat, eh? MaeCoy Lun- not to he feared. was mighty rare, “And then dad slipped the index corner of his draw carefully into sight and his heart stopped dead for a second. The fourth queen was staring up at him! He had a hand that\was within two of being UTibeatable! With the aces broker, only four kings and a straight flush could top him. Standing pat wasn't an indication of fours and it wasn't likely Lundy had that rare bird, a straight flush, No, dad argued, Lundy's pat hand was either ® lower hind or a bluff. And he’d like to see Lundy bluff his four painted ladies!™ CHAPTER 38 A HUMAN LIFE AT STAKE The drama of the weird situation held us in motionless attention. Jerry, visibly affected, continued in a hushed tone. “Lundy sat with his shoulders hunched up and his cards “eld close to his eyes. His eyes leaped from his own hand to the back of dad’s; his lips twitched, grinning. and he moistened them with the tip of his tongue, The men behind dad seemed to have stopped breathing, so dead still was the room, yet dad said the air quivered ke & harp strink. Somebody be- hind him whispered: * ‘Bet, yuh fool!’ “It seemed to ease the tension for a moment and Richey slid for- ward a stack of blues. Dad meas- ured it with a couple more. ‘ac- Coy scratched his chin, thinking then he matched the three blue stacks with another threce. It was now Lundy’s bet. the Cmdms oFf awollet coni up shoulders almost’ paralieied the sides of his head and he blinked owlishly at dad, who was trying tathom' his expression. Lundy mut- tered something 0 himself, then he suddenly railsed MacCoy.-a stack of made a. rapid - calculation, and measured Lundy's four stacks with fiv Dad caw the bet and raised-it two stacks of blues. Mac. Coy dropped out. . “Lundy blinked at dad, peered at his cards, . gogsled . at dad again, then shoved forward every chip, blue, red, sand" white he had left. Richey measured Lundy's bet stack for stack, and raised it by another. The bet was dad's again, “He knéw ' instinctively that this was to be the final hand and for the firat time since he had picked He wouldn't ~ have minded if only the half ‘millon or so fie ‘'was worth were at stake—but this was differ. erry—his own " flesh and aiting with a “'noese hang- his head—the living stake — it was ghastly, But what elss could he do? This was'the only way and he had taken'it. His head ‘was buzzing like a mill saw, The room’ atank of thoss desert rats at the door! He got himself in hand again, 8it tight! That was it. “Dad then pushed forward all his chips, topping Richey’s bet by some $4,000. “Lundy’s eyes were like pointy o° frozen light, dad said. He grabbed a writing pad off the desk mnd !scribbled - an IOU for $10,000. Richey reached for the pad. Then he stopped. ‘No,’ he muttered, ‘I'm_out.” “Lundy looked at dad. FEvery- body looked at him. Dad thought he caught a gleam of mockery in Lundy's ey Dad said he'd have given $100 for a drink of cold wa- ter, and fro on the table, blinking at dad like some beastly. prowling thing. All at once, dad’ seized the pad, wrote an TOU for $20.000 and shoved it on top of the other. _ “Lundy grunted, calculated, or pretended to, and wrote again. The 10U was for $40,000. “Dad wrote another for $60,000. “You couldn't hear the drawing | of a breath now, dad said. The room was Hke a death house, Lun- dy wrote an 10U for $100,000. “Dad said he forgot the stinking heat, Richey, MacCoy, the jam at the door. He only saw Lundy's fist, the Dbacks of his five cardy, the blinking eyes behind them . and beyond, a white-faced boy in a dark tunnel. . He was asking himself if the devil or chance had given Lundy the four kings or the rare straight flush. He pulled him- self up. Lundy was probably bet- ting on a full house. He'd stick by his queens. “There was a quarter of a mil- lion in the pot. A $150,000 or so of it was Lundy's, and $90,000 dad’a; the remained had been MacCoy's or Richey's. Dad calculated swift- ly. At that time he had availabl» about $300,000, s0 he could bet an- | other $210,000. He thought about | it for, a moment longer, then he wrote ‘& check on his Los Angeles bank for $300,000, payable tu Joe Lundy. Tearing up his IOU's, he slid the check under one of the stacks of blues. “Lundy breathed gustily, took off his glasses, and wiped his face with a dirty handkerchief. Putting bis glasges on again, he whipped out a checkbook and scribbled a check for $300,000, payable to dad, then he burned his 10U's and scribblej on the pad. Tearing off the sheet. he pushed it, with the check, under one of the stacks of blnes, but in such @ position that Dad read it easily, Lundy had written: Jerry Peterson goes free, JOE LUNDY. © “'II- eost yuh the Two Brothers to call me’ Lundy whispered. “Dad said he had - known it vas coming, just as he had known it { was Lundy's mad ambition to ruin him that hd4 driven him te pro- pose this crazy. game. He won- dered"if the thing were real . . if he weren't going mad. And then he saw that dark tunnel again and 'a white-faced kid listening and waiting, and he knew it was real. . Had Lundy the four kings or i up the fourth queen he feit afraid. |- Lundy was sliding the pad top racked dad horribly for a moment, then he shoved it to the back of mind and grabbing the pad wi & transfer of ‘the mine property in Lupdy's: favor. ““That'll stick in any court, maid, tossing it over. | sasp of admiration ' broke from the men at the door. Dad said it came to him in a twinkling. then, that the issue had been pre- sented to the crowd in the proper sporting light and that if he'd won they'd probabdly back him wp. Rut Fad he? MacCoy witnessed the transfer. “Lundy began to laugh, then. It must have ahocked even thos» toughs behind dad. Lundy. kept it going until dad could stand it no longer—he’'d heen through enough to drive most men mad. *‘S8how your hand! jumping to his feet. “There “must have been some. thing in dad's face that told Lundy he was going too far. He shut of( his bellowing .and. spread’ his hand wiy, one card at a time. @ . had a straight flush—the ace, ‘two, three, four, and five of. hearts!"” IR (Copyright, 1929, Wm. Merrow Co.) he roared, Smashed by the fate of cards — Has Alex Peterson been beaten? Read tomorrow’s chapter. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS Notice The Board of Adjustment will hear the following petitions for Zone changes on Wednesday evening, June 12, 1929, Room 208, City Hall Build- ing, at 7:30 o'clock. Pefition of Minnie Hagearty for change of zone on High Street, from Residence “C” to Business “C", Petition .of A. W. Mason for change of zone at corner of Corbin Avenue and Shuttle Meadow Ave: from Residence “A” to Busineas * Petition of Stephen Robb, et al- for change of zone on the East Side of Cherry Street, from Residence “C"* | to Business “B". T. LINDER, Clerk Board of Adjustment. FORECLOSURE SALE e \ By order of the Buperior Court of | Hartford County, I will sell at pub- lic auction on the premises on June 12th, 1929, at 1:30 Standard time, the following property: A certain piece and parcel of land and buildings thereon, now standing of record in the name of Florence J. Gonyer, sitiated on the easterly sde of Goodrich Road, Town of Farm- ington, County of Hartford, and 8tate of Connecticut, being about sixty-five feet (65') front and reur and about one hundred forty-six feet (146°) in depth. 8aid premises are to he sold suh- iect to the following encumbrances: First mortgage to the First Bond and Mortgage Company of Hartford in the amount of Thirty-Five Hun- dred ($3,500) Dollars, and taxes as of record may appear, Terms: Two Hundred Fifty ($2560) Dollars c: at time of sale, balance on approval of sale by court. For particulars apply to the un- dersigned. CLESSON W. PARKER, Committee. 55 West Main Street, New Britain, Connecticut. City Advertisement ACCEPTANCE OF McCLINTOCK | STREET Notice is herehy given that u hearing will be held before the Board of Puvlic Works,City of New Britain, in Room 307 City hall, at 6:30 p. m., E. 8 T, Tuesday, Juune 11th, 1929 on the proposed taking of land for highway purposes from Al- len Street to Commonwesith Avenue, same to be known as McClintock Street, and establishing street and grade lines thereon. ANl persons interested are re. quested to be present at said hearing, it they see cause, and be heard in relation to the above, BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, the straight flush? The possibility His hunched- lo( his having the one or the othec | Former New Britain Man Has itray a Chinaman. iCity Advertisement Chicago, June 11 “(UP)—Mrs. Anna Scharlog may know her bungalows now, but the time was when she wouldn't let her hus- band, - Aléxander, “bring them into the house,” he declared, “She thought a bungalow :was just some. new kind of a dog," Scharlog told Ju@ige Sabath, after his wite, wha recently sued for a divorce, haled him into court for contempt, on the ground he hadn’t told her about. the four bungalows he had built. “When I wrote her about them she told me she didn't want them And she said I'd have (o feed them myself,” “Perhaps,” suggested the court, “she couldn’'t read your - writing and. thought you mean buffa. loes”. :: ¢ P Both admitted - they hada't been on' speaking terms for 10 years and communicated with each: other. by writing, . OLAND IS SWEDISH BUT ACTS CHINESE Strange Screen Career Hollywood, Calif., June 11 — A Bwedish actor who was born to por- ‘That's the best description one could give of Warner Oland. Dur- ing his career in the flickering tilms, Oland has characterized « Chinaman ° in seven different pic- tures. And in each he resembled perfectly a native of that country. Likes Chinese Roles “Yet, I like to play the Chinese roles because most of them give me WARNER OLAND, an opportunity to do some real act- ing,” Oland remarked. “In fact I like all roles that give me a chance for ditficult characterizations. T be- lieve character actors are the real backbone of most pictures. They are the ones who give the produc- tion its atmosphere. “And, incidentally, the charac- ter actors are the ones who live the longest in the business.” Some 20 years ago Oland was enjoying as colorful a stage career as any man behind the footlights. He played in the original presenta- tion of “The Christian” with Viola Allen and Edward Morgan. Follow- ing that he appeared for a meason NOTICE The Ordinance Committee of the common council will meet at 8§ o'clock Thursday evening, June 13, in the city court room, Room 209, City Hall, to hold a public hearing on the following matters: (1) Proposed repeal of the ex- isting ordinance which prohibits the playing of carnivals in New Britain. (2) Proposed ordinance regulat- {ing the operation of dry cleaning es- tablishments. The Ordinance Committee, Thomas F. McGrath, Clerk. J. G. Johnson, C'.\alrm»mI first time that star appeared in this country, 4 & “I_am’ finding new that my leng ex| the stage is of grest help to me in making talking ‘films, but that experience is not noarly as valuable as the things I have learn. ed in pictures.” declares Oland.: “In my opinion it ls much easler learn to talk than it is te leara to act. And s stage acter myst learn all over again when he comea into pictures. The technique la entirely different, “My atart in pictures veally /was against ‘my own wishes. At that yoars ago,: I looked! down: upon:them just as all other stage aetors did. My start came during the summer time when I had no chojce ip the matter. .There were no jobs open cn the stage anl I needed work, sa.l turned to the movies." X A He is Dr. Manchu Oland's latest film is “The Insid- jous Dr. Fu Manchu,” in which he plays the titte .role, Those who have not seen him in a talking film will do well to see thia picture. And | incidentally the film itself is worth seeing in addition to his excellent performance. \ It is a straight mystery story handled very well—so well that you will find yourself on the edge of your seat most of the time. Natur- ally there'ade flaws in it if you look for them, But I don’t think you will, - Warner Oland is a former resi- dent of New Britain. He was em- ployed at Landers, Frary &, Clark and was well known through the state as a bicycle rider. - BEST EXECUTIV OF GRUFF NATURE Impatient Braggarts Advance Faster Than Others, French Lick, Ind., June 11 UPM—A cross section of the traits which Luild executive leadership, taken di- rect from American industry, was presented before the National Asso- ciation of Office Managers at its meeting here. The report was from Dr. Donald A, Laird, director of Colgate uni- versity psychological laboratory. He was assisted in the studies by E. 8. Copeland, W. L. Webb and Everett Holt. 5 The findings summarize qualifica- ftions of “strong” men, marked by their euperiors for morc pay and executive leadership responsibility, and “weak” men who just failed to get the job. Dr. Laird said many pet theories were upset. Neither type differed casentially 1n “interest in people, ' or in “fair play,” while “hard work” was not the Kkey to succyss as he- tween the two groups. Self-control under trying conditions also appear- ed of small importance, and the “weak" leaders rated slightly higher in patience. “Outstanding general traits of the executive of strong leadership,” said Dr. Laird, “were how he impresses others as having self-confidence, how well he plans and. organizes routine and subordinates, gencral business judgment and aggressive- ness, his- foresight in anticipating future developments, . his knowledge of the detalls of his present job, his willingness to take over responsibil. ity and his ability to carry it out. “This is rather a different picture from one gaiped from. literary sources. It is not human or pleas. ing personality qualities that have made the leader. - “As a matter of fact practically half of the marked leaders had a noticeable dislike of some of their associates, had a temper, did not know about the home conditions or troubles of people, were argumenta- Aive, und people did not come to them for confidential advice. “The strong leader bragged more, He is a bit more vulgar, is some- what likely to interrupt others. than are the weak leaders.” HOW I FOUND THE WALLET wr- SIX -THOU N E DOL T RUN RIGHT HOME WIT| MY MOM AS 1 DONT IT TO ‘Washington. 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There were the table and sat down opposite|many more hehind them and he @ad. MacCoy sat on dad's left, |could hear others coming np the Richey on his right. Lundy took |stair. They must have sensed | _@ft his glasses saying he didn'*|something of the significance of suppose dad'd mind if he changed |the game. he said, for none of them iMem for his other pair. These | moved towards the table. Were ‘were for distance. these men to see the greatest vic- “Dad had nothing to say. Every- |tory of his life—or his ruin? ““pody knew that Lundy was near- Richey shuf , Lundy cut, and . Mghted and that he used a second | Richey dealt. 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