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Updated: September 30, 2025
The store, standing back from the rough board sidewalk, was small and shabby; the street was torn by transfer-wagon wheels. A Chinese laundry and a pool-room occupied the other side. Sawmill refuse and empty coal-oil cans had been dumped in a neighboring vacant lot.
"Back to the pasture!" exclaimed the captain. "Longfellow made the pacing-to-wagon record of 7.53 'way back in 1868." "I believe there's something queer about this joint," repeated Turpin. "I don't see it," said the captain. "I know it looks like a pool-room, all right," persisted Turpin, "but that's all a blind. Vivien has been dropping a lot of coin somewhere.
The back bar, with its big mirrors and other fixtures, was as it had been when the place was a regular saloon. At the right of the room, opposite the bar, were several round, green-topped card tables. In the rear was the billiard and pool equipment, which entitled the place to the name "pool-room."
"I don't expect either of 'em meant no real harm to each other, after they got cooled off a little! If they'd met to-day, they'd probably both run! Now, Mr. Louden, where's Happy?" Joe went to the door with her. He waited a moment, perplexed, then his brow cleared and he said in a low voice: "You know the alley beyond Vent Miller's pool-room? Go down the alley till you come to the second gate.
I might have known it was no use arguing with a New York cop. They said they had been tipped off that there was a pool-room being run in the house, and that they were cleaning up the house, and if I wanted to say anything I'd better say it to the magistrate. I said, all right, I'd put on some clothes and come with them. They said they couldn't wait about while I put on clothes.
The cautious patrons of the "Valkyrie," stealing in by the side entrances, talked in whispers of the re-opening of the pool-room, and the sleeping "blind tiger." "Come around any evening next week, after the Fourth," was the message given to the "safe" patrons, "and we will be happy to accommodate you."
There was a dead hush as the crowd in the pool-room waited for Old Heck's reply to Dorsey's drunken challenge. "We'll kind of remember that invitation, Dorsey," Old Heck said in tones as hard and smooth and cold as ice, while his gray eyes narrowed and bored the boastful cow-man like points of steel, "we'll sort of bear in mind that suggestion of yours.
"Upstairs in the rear across a roof " He glanced again at the group and stopped. "A gambling house?" "No a pool-room. That's why I give ye the tip." Felix ruminated, the man polishing vigorously. "What kind of people come here?" "The kind ye see and crooks." "Do you know them all?" "Why not? I been workin' here two months. Had two raids that's why I posted ye.
This fellah's in the Western Union; an operator with the pool-room lines. You can run the game. It's easy. See, he holds back the returns, tipping you the winners, and you skin round and lay the bets before he loosens up on the returns. It's easy money; easy and sure." Again Garrison was silent. But now a smile was on his face. He had been asking himself what was the use of honesty.
One of the two grinning "sports" knew a place where they could settle it undisturbed just around the corner in the basement of a pool-room.
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