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Updated: October 20, 2025
There's no reason she shouldn't visit you, but you can't go there." The color returned to Helen's face and she got up. She looked stately with her air of injured pride. "Do you mean that I should rule my conduct to suit the ideas of the drunken loafers at the settlement poolroom?" "Oh!" said Festing impatiently, "try to be sensible! You have done a foolish thing, but you needn't make it worse.
They say India's chuckful of it but law it'll take more than magic to save little Jim Tumley, for he's beginning again. While the minister kept close he was all right but the housewarming and that poolroom took up time, and then Jim's sister, Mrs. Hoskins, got sick and Jim goes there to play and sing to her, and you know what George Hoskins is.
During the thirty odd years of his life he had been in turn stockboy, clothing salesman, bookmaker's clerk, faro dealer, poolroom cashier and, finally, bucketshop proprietor.
Connie Murtha, you know," he goes on, "the big poolroom backer, and one of the flossiest, foxiest widows in New York." "Then that accounts for the husky wad," says I. "Twenty thousand! No piker, was he? Ask your man who's on the case?" "Rusitelli & Donahue," says Whitey. "Mike's a friend of mine too; but he never talks much." "Let's have a try, anyway," says I.
Each time that the little Bunnell sounder was galvanized into articulate life he bent his ear and listened to the busy cluttering of the dots and dashes, as the reports of races, as the weights and names of jockeys, and lists of entries and statements of odds and conditions went speeding into the busy keys of the big poolroom below, where men and women waited with white and straining faces, and sorrowed and rejoiced as the ever-fluctuant goddess of chance brought them ill luck or success.
He quartered with the family, if Hulls, Archie, and Maizie would be called a family, instead of living at the bunkhouse. Old Jeff referred to him as a dude, but the comment applied to mannerisms rather than clothes. He dressed as a townsman; he frequented the poolroom and Gatty's doggery. He announced his name as Steve Adams, said that he was Maizie's nephew.
He thought of the miners' wives, attendants to the dead, who would sit with crossed hands looking at him and turned out of the road to sit on the fallen log where once on a Sunday afternoon he had sat with the black-haired boy who worked in the poolroom and where the daughter of the undertaker had come to sit beside him. And then up the long hill came the woman herself.
It owned the legislatures in every state in which it did business; it even owned some of the big newspapers, and made public opinion there was no power in the land that could oppose it unless, perhaps, it were the Poolroom Trust.
He had been a salesman on the road for five different concerns, had run a restaurant, a poolroom, and a moving-picture show, and had even been connected with a prize-fighting affair. He did not care what he did so long a it paid, and many of his transactions had been of the shady sort. Nat did not enjoy the visit to the Falls as much as he had anticipated.
"'Blister Jones, I says. "'Why, man! he says, 'I've heard ob you frequen'ly. Ma name am Johnson. Duckfoot is ma boy; hyars a tellegam fum him! "He pulls out the wire. 'T. K. in the third, it says. I looks up at the board Tea Kettle's twelve-to-one. "I goes out of that poolroom on the jump 'n' runs all the way to the hotel. The chicken ain't in her room.
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