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"So that jasper's back again," commented the proprietor. "Which?" The bartender followed the proprietor's gaze, which was on a man seated at a card table, his profile toward them, playing cards with several other men. The bartender's face showed perplexity. Moulin laughed. "I forgot you ain't been here that long," he said. "That was before your time.
Mike was stirring into the glass of liquor cayenne pepper which he was shaking from a paper. He was using as a mixer the barrel of a forty-five. The salient jaw of Houck jutted out. "What monkey trick are you tryin' to play on me?" he asked angrily. "You wanted it hot," Mike replied, and the bartender's gaze too was cold and level.
The bartender's cigar had gone out and the cowpuncher saw that his face was a shade paler. "Then a train stopped sudden one evenin' where they wasn't no station, an' after that the outfit busted up. But they wasn't broke no more, all but the Kid. They left him shift fer hisself. Couple o' years later two of the outfit drifted together in Cinnabar an' there they found the Kid drivin' a dude-wagon.
It seemed monstrous to him that policemen and judges should esteem his word as nothing in comparison with the bartender's poor Jurgis could not know that the owner of the saloon paid five dollars each week to the policeman alone for Sunday privileges and general favors nor that the pugilist bartender was one of the most trusted henchmen of the Democratic leader of the district, and had helped only a few months before to hustle out a record-breaking vote as a testimonial to the magistrate, who had been made the target of odious kid-gloved reformers.
The old gambler showed no signs of his trying experience of the afternoon; in fact, it appeared to have been banished utterly from his mind. He was drinking, and even while Pierce looked on he rapped sharply with his iron hand to call the bartender's attention. Meanwhile he scanned intently the faces of all new-comers.
Ben's head turned, met the bartender's Cyclopean eye squarely, and held it with a look this bulldozer of men had never before received in all his checkered career. "Mick Kennedy," he said quietly, "another move like that, and in five minutes you'll be hanging from the other side." For the fraction of a second there was a pause; but, short as it was, the Irishman felt the sweat start.
"I think she's over helpin' nurse the Widder Flannery's sick kids this afternoon. They've got chicken pox. Might go over there and see her if you're in a rush." "We didn't say we wanted to borrow money," Bill retorted to the jocular latter part of the bartender's speech. "What time will she be here?" "About ten, I guess," was the more courteous reply.
It is a long procession, and its end is far off. It is born of the fact that life is dull, competition is keen, and ambition so often ends in sawdust failure. A better chance for strugglers, a more generous reward for hard work, better organization of social life, solution of the great unsolved problem of real civilization, will end the bartender's procession.
The allied two jostled the bartender's elbows, glaring at him with feverish eyes and forcing him toward the wall. Suddenly Pete swore redly. The flash of action gleamed from his eyes. He threw back his arm and aimed a tremendous, lightning-like blow at Jimmie's face. His foot swung a step forward and the weight of his body was behind his fist.
"Used to pitch for the Pirates," Shorty said. The bartender's expression didn't change. Joe noticed that he stood balanced on both feet. "Why aren't you teaching in a university somewhere?" Joe asked him. "You know Bob Dylan's line about the difference between hospitals and universities?" "No." "More people die in universities. Also . . . " He did a quick soft-shoe shuffle. "I drink, so be it."
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