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A Game of Skill
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By JAMES M. CAIN
Published by Special Arrangement With The
Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate;
Incorporated
IN TWO PARTS—PART ONE
A YOUNG GAMBLER REAPS
HIS JUST REWARD, RE
VENGE AND PUNISHMENT.
THE captain at the Hotel Mad
j»n's cocktail bar looked slight
ly startled at the appearance of
two children, their school books
under their arms, at the aperitif
hour; but as he was accustomed to
control his emotions, he led them
gravely to a. table, and stood by for
their orders.
Louis, scanning the card with a fine
imitation of his father’s aplomb in this
place, closed it presently, and an
nounced with a haughty yawn that he
would have frosted chocolate. Pris
cilla. his fait companion. said a little
hastily and a little breathlessly, that
she “would have that, too."
The captain bowed and went off.
Then she began to peep, peer and
gurgle, and by the time the frosted
chocolates came, she could hardly get
the straws out of the envelope for her
excitement.
“My, Louis, I’ve never been in such
a place. Look at that couple over
there. I bet they’re college students.
And the music! Can we dance?"
“Sure, dance if .you want to. Come
on."
"We better wait till somebody else
starts.”
"It’s O.K. Come on, we'll dance."
Loaia dropped aix into the 1000 hole, juat to convince the magistrate it could be done.
“I just want to look. My, but it’s
grand."
“It’s a alb-right place. Dead now.
though. You ought to see it right
after a game. Football crowd in here,
then’s when she comes to life. Plenty
going on then.”
“I’d love to see it then."
"O. K., next Saturday we ll come in.
I'll get the tickets and soon as it’s
over we’ll come in.*’
"You mean you'll take me to the
game?"
"Sure. Haven't you been to a game?"
Priscilla hadn't. Like most children
in a college town, she heard about
these great events from her elders,
and read about them in the news
papers; but as for seeing them, the $2
stipulated for a ticket was a tragic
barrier. ...
“Gee, I didn't know you’d never sCen
a game. Sure, we'll go, and I’ll ex
plain you the fine points, and then
we’ll come here afterwards. How
would you like that?”
. Can I let you know?"
“Any time."
“I’ll have to ask mamma.
“O. K.. just let me know in time to
get the tickets."
“Oh, Louis, it’ll be grand, just
grandl ”
He |>aid the check, which was 70c..
and elegantly wa?ed aside the 30c
change from his dollar. When, out
side, he motioned to a taxi, put her in
it, gave the address to the driver, and
nonchalantly tllmbcd in himself, her
eyes almost popped out. ’’Gee. youi
father must treat you good for you
to be able to go around like this. I—
—l never went around like this be
fore.”
“What do you mean, ‘treat me
good’?"' , , . „
“Well—it must cost a lot.
"Don’t be silly. My old man gives
me. one' buck a week, no more than
your old man gives you. This—this is
my own money." .
“Why, Louis—you'mean you work? ;
“I mean it’s my money.'
She looked at him myiiUfled. he of.
sered no more information, and they
rode on In silence.
It was his own money, strange its
that may seem; Indeed, his acquisition
of it, and with it the means of ac
quiring more of It whenever he 1 iked,
and In such quantities as he liked, was
the big fact of his life, this last w ®ek.
What had happened was that he had
figured a way to beat the bagateUc
gSne at the comer drugstore. By
snapping the ball up the chute, i Mid
at the same time leaving his finger
behind the handle of the plunger, he
found he could give the Pl u ßB er n
little backward tug at a critical mo
ment. and make the ball drop into
practically any hole he pleased.
Tills was all the more delightful
since Mr. Purnell, the druggist, to say
nothing of the cashier, the prescrip
tion clerk, the soda jerker and other
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GLACIER COUNTY CHIEF
functionaries of the place, obviously'
had no idea how he did it. Perhaps
their habit of watching the ball, in-|
stead of his hand, was the reason for
that. Mr. Purnell watched his game
with increasing alarm, but he paid;
paid, indeed, in such sums as Louis
had never seen before—sl.so, $2, $3, s4i
and $5 at a time.
Such affluence, of course, had to be,
celebrated, and Priscilla, by reason of
her radiant beauty, seemed the person
of persons to celebrate with. It didn’t
hurt any, of course, that she lived on
another block, and didn’t patronize
Mr. Purnell’s drugstore; his rising ac
claim as a gambler thus had not i
reached her. and her mystification at
his wealth was very pleasing.
The football game he had been
meditating for several days, and he,
planned to do the thing in style, as
the crowning evidence of his success.!
It would be costly, of course, but what
of that?. He had only to stretch forth
his hand and pluck fruit where thei
money tree grew. The costlier the j
better.
"O. K., you’ll let me know?"
“I’ll let you know tomorrow.”
He escorted her to her door, got back
in the taxi, and gave a new address.'
He thought it advisable to alight a
block from his home, lest he be seen,
and have to do some explaining. When
he got out the coast was clear. The
bill was $1.05 and he gave the driver
$1.25. The driver touched his hat.
When he entered the house dinner
was just being served. He said the
coach kept them late, to practice for
ward passes for the home-room game
on Friday. His mother said all right,
but to hurry up and not keep dinner
waiting.
But when, after dinner, he mumbled
something about "buying a notebook
and eraser." and slipped down to the
drugstore to win the first installment
of the large sum he would require Sat
urday. he sensed hostility. Mr. Pur
nell didn't seem to see him when he
came in. He stood around, waited his
turn, but his turn didn't come.
Boy after boy was called up before
he was, and he fretted. He would have
to go home pretty soon, and he had
to win something tonight, or he
wouldn't be able to accumulate enough
When Tony Fontana, who had arrived
after he did, was called up ahead oi
him, he flared out in protest. 'Hey!
I was here before he was! Its my
turn now! He's got no right ahead ot
me.”
Mr. Purnell smiled evasively, anti
motioned Tony to the machine
"You're a little too good lor us, Louis.”
"What do you mean, 'too good for
you?"
"You've got the board hexed.”
It suddenly dawned on him that Mr.
Purnell wasn't going to let linn play
any more, and a sense of profound
injustice began to swell within him.
It never entered his mind that lie had
been cheating Mr. Purnell. Indeed,
with that vivid intuition that is pos
sessed by childhood and by childhood
alone, he knew that Mr. Purnell had
been cheating him, and not only him,
but all the other boys who played the
game. He knew nothing of permuta
tions, combinations, oi the law ot
chances, nothing of the way in which
such a game is contrived so that the
iiouse has to win over a given number
of plays.
All he knew was that until a few
days ago, when he made this colossal
discovery, lie and the other boys com
monly lost. And it seemed monstrous
that now when he had a chance to
get even. Mr. Purnell simply refused
to let him play.
"So I got it hexed, hey?”
"Afraid you have, Louis."
"And how about you? You got it
hexed, too, haven’t you? You got it
hexed plenty."
"Louis, are you insinuating that this
game is crooked?" Mr. Purnell was
stern and the pattern of insulted
virtue.
"I’m not insinuating nothing. All I
say is when you win, it's all right.
But when I win—then I can't play any
more."
There was a general murmur of as
sent to this. Mr. Purnell was in a
spot, but he was saved by the tele
phone. Quickly he answered, and hung
up with a look of relief. "Your mother
says you’re to come home at once.
Louis.
"Yah, ain’t that swell! You heard
me, though."
Next day at school. Priscilla whis
pered it was all right, her mother
would let her go to the game. He
nodded grimly. Ho had made up his
mind to circumvent Mr. Purnell, and
had formulated a plan. He would
show up at the store at the hour when
Mr. Purnell was home at his dinner,
and the prescription clerk, a simple
minded fellow who had not been pres-
ent at the previous night’s argument,
: would let him play, not knowing any
| better.
He phoned his mother that the
coach would keep him very late that
I afternoon, that he probably couldn’t
■ get home much before seven. Then,
at 6:15, sauntered into the drugstore.
But there was Mr. Purnell at the coun
< ter, having his dinner. He remem
bered, with a start, that it was
Thursday, the cook’s night out, and
that Mr. Purnell didn’t go home to
dinner on Thursdays.
Mr. Purnell smiled at him affably,
। and shook his head, meaning there
I would be no play for him that night.
He gulped, turned to go. But then
things began to happen in bewildering
fashion. Four cops entered, locked the
door, and told them all to stay where
। they were.
Then one of them put his hand on'
Mr. Purnell’s shoulder and told him
ihe was under arrest. Then another
i began to unscrew the game from its
' mountings. Then he and two cus
tomers and Tony, who had been play
| ing the game when he came in, and
| three other boys who had been watch
। ing. and Mr. Purnell and the cashier
I and the prescription clerk and the
soda jerker. were all jammed into a
! patrol wagon and taken at breakneck
speed, bell ringing, sirens screeching,
I to a police station.
There Mr. Purnell was marched be
fore a sergeant, who began asking
questions and writing in a big book,
and the rest of them were herded over
J in a corner, and there was a deal of
running about and telephoning from
a phone against the wall.
Next thing he knew, his father and
mother were there, and he was called
up and asked his name, address and
a lot of other things. Then the ser
geant said something about "parents’
recognizance,” and added: "Have him
here tomorrow afternoon. 3 o'clock
sharp. Magistrate’s court, first door to
your right down the hall. 3 o’clock
sharp, summons sufficient evidence
for truant officer."
It wasn't until he got home, rather
badly frightened, and his mother
served them a belated supper, that he
had the faintest idea what it was al!
about. It seemed that Mr. Purnell had
been raided, on two charges: First,
the possession of gambling parapher
nalia and operation thereof on the
premises: second, the encouragement
of minors to gamble.
That was why he had been taken to
the station house; as a minor, he was
wanted to testify about the gambling.
His mother thoroughly approved the
whole proceeding. "I hope they send l
him right to jail, it's just where he
belongs. Why the very idea, letting
boys play that game. Just making
gamblers out of every one of them.
Have you played it. Louis?"
"Yes'm. just for sodas."
"There! Do you hear that? Even
our child "
But his father was more cjmical.
"He'll not go to jail. I doubt if he
even pays a fine."
"He will if I've got anything to do
with it. Why ”
"You haven't got anything to do
with it. Don’t be .silly Why do you
suppose ho was allowed to run his
game in the first place? Because he.
or somebody, the manufacturer of the
game, probably, got jx>lice protection.
Well, when he's raided, that means
that he. or somebody, didn't kick in.
That’s all. Tomorrow, it'll be all fixed
up. Just a little disciplinary matter,
to teach them to keep their payments
up."
So. at the hearing, it proved. When
they were all lined up in iront of the
magistrate, and there hail been a
hocus-pocus of having them raise
their right hand and saying "I do."
one of the policemen took a memo
randum from his hat and began to
talk in an apologetic manner, as
though it had all been a most unfor
tunate mistake. "We did raid this
here place Yr’onner. after we got
some phone calls about it. but I had
a chance to look the matter up today,
and find the game is classified under
department regulations as a legitimate
game, played for prizes only, so I
guess I’ll have to request Y’onner to
dismiss the complaint."
But the magistrate had a different
idea about it. He was a peppery indi
vidual. with gray hair and sharp blue
eyes, and he stared at the policeman
long and hard.
"Cash prizes?”
"I believe so. Y’onner. If claimed."
“And you thought the game was
against the law last night and today
you don't think so. Is that it?"
"Well. I think I told Y’onner. I
looked it up ”
“Complaint stands. Proceed with I
the case."
"Y’onner, I dont see how I can pro-
ceed with the case when under de
partment regulations ”
“This court is not bound by regula
tions of the police department. I think
we can assume, if the game was run
ning openly, that there was a depart
ment regulation covering it, and this
court will take full cognizance of the
probable reason why. However, this
court is bound only by law, and law
will govern this case. You’ll proceed,
or you’ll face charges, and those
charges will be sufficiently broad to
take in this highly significant regula
tion that has been promulgated by the
police department.”
"Yes, sir."
To Louis, standing there with his
father and mother, this much was
pleasurable; indeed the humiliation of
a policeman was truly exhiliarating,
something he didn’t know could hap
pen. But what followed speedily be
came very dull. The policeman sud
denly recited the facts and stepped
aside.
A Mr. Garrity, who seemed to be
Mr. Purnell’s lawyer, made an impas
sioned plea for the drugstore, as op
posed to the saloon, the pool room,
and other dens of iniquity. A Mr. Sil
bro, who said he was the manufac
turer of the game, deposed that he
was a very religious man himself, that
his game was played in three hundred
drugstores in many different cities,
and that he had with him letters from
preachers, rabbis, priests, “all kinds of
diffunt dominations, Y’onner, all ap
prove of the game, all look on it as
highly beneficial to young people, ex
cise their mind, their powers of self
control, their will—a educational game
in every respect, Y’onner, as I think
you’ll agree if you just let your eye run
over these here letters."
Louis’ mind wandered, and he dis
covered he wasn't having a very good
time. For one thing, his revenge on
Mr. Purnell, when he would testify to
matters that would send him smartly
to jail, wasn’t a very exciting pros
pect; the magistrate, somehow, had
stolen his thunder. For another thing,
there was that matter of the football
game Saturday, a dull ache that he
couldn’t shake off, for he had prom
ised Priscilla, and Priscilla was very
pretty.
For another thing, there was his
resolve, arrived at in that furious mo
ment when Mr. Purnell refused to let
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Purnell to pay for this Saturday, and
he was a tenacious boy, who found It
hard to give up anything, once it was
lodged in his mind. He stood there,
first on one foot, then on the other
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and the more he brooded the more
uncomfortable he felt.
He was jerked back to reality by the
magistrate, who was pointing his fin
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briefcase and answer the questions I
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