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CONFESSION
OF A “CHUMP."
BY W. HANSON ROYCE.
It had been trying all day to storm,
an hour ago a driving northeast snow
fI , m had begun to whistle dismally
!U nd th efour corners of the cosy
house that Jack had built.
I had come up from town late in the
al t moon to consult Jack, who had
b, , n confined to the house several days
with a severe cold, about some legal
affair, and had accepted his pressing
invitation to spend the night with him
a n.l go back to the office in the morn
ing.
Having finished our confab early, we
adjourned to the library, where we
found Mrs. Jack, who proposed that
we play a three handed game of whist.
\y, had been playing for two hours or
more when at length, Clio, as Jack
railed her, rose from the table, and
after kissing her husband and bidding
me a cheery “goodnight,” she with
drew and lett us there alone.
I was very much impressed with the
wife of iny old chum, as well as some
what surprised, for I had always
hitherto supposed that Jack was al
together indifferent, as far as women,
were concerned. I had always said
that Jack Holcomb would be the last
one of my circle of male friends to get
married, for he was a very odd, pecu
liar fellow—was Jack.
He was a royal, all around good chap.
“CLIO WAS SINGING A LOVE SONG IN A MANNER THAT MADE MY
HEAD WHIRL.”
full of pluck and enthusiasm with a
strict attention to business, which had
already marked him as one of the ris
ing men in his chosen profession, the
bar. He always seemed to have a de
cided indifference to the opposite sex,
although it was not necessarily because
he disliked them, for it was more of a
certain awe, and a modesty which he
always said he felt when he was
brought in contact with a pretty wo
man, and so for that reason, he seem
ed to avoid them as much as possible.
He had often said that he had much
rather fail In business than to fall In
love, and I could not help wondering
just a little how r It was, that a fellow
like Jack Holcombe had ever mustered
up sufficient gourage to propose to a
girl like Clio Davenport.
She was the only daughter of old
Judge Davenport, and a charming girl
she was, too, with a train of admirers
that would have turned the heads of
half the other girls in the town.
I had been thinking about this all the
evening and as soon as his wife had
left the room, I turned to Jack and
ventured to remark:
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“So you went and married after alii
did you?” 1
“Yes,” he answered, smiling a little
after a .moment's pause. “We were
married nearly a year ago now. In
fact, it was pretty soon after you went
west on that trip, last spring, you
know.”
“Well,” I muttered alouil, half to my
self. I don t see how you ever got up
enough courage to ask any girl to mar
ry you, and of all girls, Clio Daven
port."
“I always liked her,” he confessed,
blushing like a schoolboy.
'ies,” I replied. “There's no ques
tion about that, at all. But tell me,
old man, how did you ever happen to
'pop' anyway? Knowing you as well
as I do, 1 cannot understand it.”
"I won her at a game of cards,” he
answered calmly, as he ‘lit his cigar
and leaned back comfortably in his
great easy chair.
If Jack had said that he had won
his wife at a raffle, or that she had
taken advantage of the leap year
privilege, I should not have been any
more surprised, for I had always
known Jack to lie good at anything
but entertaining the laf*es and play
ing cards. At the first, he was a regu
lar “chump,” while at the latter he
was "dead easy,” as they say.
While Jack had been at the head of
all athletic sports in town and at col
lege, I had never known of him win
ning at any game of cards, no matter
what the game was, or how simple.
But, concealing both my surprise and
curiosity to know more about it as
best I could, I said:
"Is that so? Tell me about it, ol<j
man. I want to know myself, so that
I may go and do likewise sometime,
perhaps.”
“Al l right—l’ll tell you how it was.
I’ll tell you all there is to tel. It isn’t
so very much, either. Take a cigar,
whie I tell you how I died- it.”
He waiting for me to get it lighted,
leaned further back in his chair and
began, just as the clock in the hall
the half hour after ten.
“After we left college, you remember
that you went West, while I went tpto
the office of Judge Davenport to study,
before I hung out a shingle for myself.
The judge was getting well along in
years, as you know, and he seemed to
take a liking for me from the first, for
I had made up my mind to attend rig
idly to business, and so well pleased
w s he, that the end of six months I
was surprised by a proposition that he
made to me one morning. It was for
me to enter the office, 1 or firm with
. him, as a junior partner. So the firm
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY. JUNE 22. 1002.
became Davenport & Holcomb, Attor
neys at Law.
Ihe old judge, is, as J’ou know, a
k 5 *f etullar character. There were
bu. three things which he seemed to
consider with more than a second
thought, and tohse were, his daughter,
his profession and his love for a good
K'Hi'e of cards.
“We never played in the office, but
sev.ral times a week he would insist
upon my going home to tea with h>m
! h *‘ evening playing
whist. Often I fiad much rather have
gone somewhere else, but I went, more
to humor the old fellow than for my
own pleasure.
, . necessarily saw more or less of
nis daughter during my visits there,
in race, she quite often came into tiie
library and sometimes she played a
hand with us herself. She was a
shrwder player than the judge, and
under her tuition I soon became, not
on,y a passable whist plaver, but head
over heels in love with her.
tell the truth I learned to love
Oho .Davenport sometime before I suc
ceeded in learning to play whist, or
even High-Lo Jack. I was rather
slow in learning the intricateness of
whist, as she taught me. while I pick
ed up poker from the judge's teachings
in a remarkably short time.
I guess that she must hav# seen
how 1 was fixed, although I tried hard
not to betray myself, but I have since
learned that in trying to conceal my
fcr her - 1 actually showed it more.
“Anyway, it grew from bad to worse,
and I even tried to decline some of the
judge's invitations, but the old chap
would not listen to reason or excuses,
and so I had to go and keep it up and
make a fool of myself just the same.
“I grew more desperate every time
I saw her, but if it had been to save
my life, I could not have told Clio
Davenport that I loved Her. In fact,
I didn’t dare to do it. 'i could stand
before the most obstinate and thick
headed jury that ever was empanelled
and plead a case ail d£ry, but to tell
that little girl, that I loved her, I
simpjy couldn't do it.
“Well, matters went on in this way
for sometime. 1 had made up a pretty
little piece to speak to her when I went
up the next time, but somehow, when
I was actually in her presence and she
spoke to me, all my previous
courage evaporated and left me
stranded and speechless on that sub
ject, and doubly confused.
“I knew that the girl saw how I
felt and I imagined that she pitied
me, and that only made me still
worse, if anything.
“Christmas came and passed and
found me no nearer speaking than I
was at Thanksgiving Day.
“New Year’s evening, the judge in
sisted upon taking me home with him
to dinner and to a quiet game of. poker
afterwards. Of course. I went, but I
didn’t want to, still I did, for I knew
that I would see her, talk with him,
and she would be pretty sure to sing
for me.
“It was snowing hard when we left
the office, and as we walked along to
gether I made up my mind, with a
firm determination, to have it over
with, one way or th<- other, before I
came home that night.
“She greeted me as I went in, with
a wish of ‘A Happy New Year,’ and
a smile which very nearly knocked all
my good resolutions into a cocked
hat.
“After dinner was over, the judge
and I went into the library and soon
after she came in, and the judge pro
posed a three-handed game of poker.
“I was willing, but Clio confessed
that she knew but very little of the
game, but that she was willing to do
the best she could to beat us both.
“We played several straight games
first, and then two ‘jack-pots,’ the
judge coming out first best, and I sec
ond, while Clio’s chips dwindled down
to nothing, and as the game was
neither to borrow or to lend, she soon
dropped out, leaving the Judge and me
to play alone.
“We played once or twice around
this way, bul the judge soon grew
tired of it, and I had lost interest
from the moment Clio had thrown up
her hand, and when the judge sug
gested that we have some music, I
seconded the motion warmly, and we
left the card table and passed into
the parlor, where Clio began to sing
for us.
“The judge stretched out upon the
sofa, while I turned Clio’s music, won
dering whether I had best speak now,
or put it off indefinitely.
“I glanced over at the judge. He
was fast asleep and snoring gently,
while Clio was singing a love song in
a manner that made my head whirl.
“Suddenly she stopped singing and
glanced over at her father, and then
got up from the piano and challenged
me to a game of double dummy whist,
which I accepted, for I knew that if
I could get her into the library where
the card table was, I would have her
alone, and then I would speak—l must
speak.
“She was a good player, far better
than I ever hoped to be, at whist, and
she played with careful attention to
the game, while I played any old card,
for I was thoughtless and reckless—
my thoughts were somewhere else be
sides upon the cards Just then. I was
wondering what I would say first, and
how I had best say It.
“She must have seen that I had but
little interest in the game for she
caught me up several times as I made
some wreehed plays. She won three
times out of three, and then she threw
down the cards and said, almost in
dignantly:
“ 'Why Mr. Holcomb, what is the
matter with you? I declare, I never
saw you so careless before. Don’t you
care to play?’
“ ‘Oh, yes,' I prevaricated. ‘But,
really, I don't know anything about
this game at all. Let’s try something
else.’
" ’All right,’ she answered. ‘What
shall it be? perhaps you would like a
little game of poker. That's what you
and papa play so much, isn’t it?’
“ ‘Yes,’ I replied, T think that I may
stand some chance at that.’
“ ‘Oh, do you?' she laughed gaily
as she shuffled the cards. ‘What are
you willing to wager that I can
not beat you the first
game? We must have some
stake, you know, to make it inter
esting and exciting—something to play
for.’
“At last. This was my long looked
for chance, and I grasped at it as a
drowning man would a like preserver.
“ 'Well,' I said slowly and carefullv,
soa s not to make a mess of it. Til
bet you a dozen of tfie biggest roses
that I can find, against—against—' and
I stopped abruptly, broken up and
confused by the quick look of pleasure
that flashed across her face.
" 'Against what?' she asked, after a
moment’s oppressive silence.
•• i ll tell you, if you will agree to
It,’ I managed to gurgle.
" 'All right. It's a bargain,’ she said,
'I agree to the stakes, whatever they
may be. What is it?’
•TH bet you the twelve roses against
one single kiss,' I blurted out, fully ex
pecting that she would rise from the
table In Indignation.
“Hut she didn't. Khe looked across
the table straight Into my eyes for a
moment, and then she blushed a little,
as she said.
" Very well I agreed to the stakes,
for I shall win. 1 know I shall, for
lie k Is always on my side, and you
will lose lb* roses.’
■ 1 mad*- tat reply, for I couldn't speak.
J took lh- cards snd cut them and
handed them over to her Khe took
them snd dealt us each flva cards
We ll have to dle'srd. you know,*
I said as < ml titty as 1 <ouid, and then
waited for her to make up her mind ]
what to do
" '1 iah* two,' aha mM awtousty, ao
she slipped them from the pack. My
hand held rather a doubtful outlook
for me. I saw her pick up three
reserved cards and slip the other two
which she had discarded into her lap.
and I wondered what she was about
to do. but I said nothing. Her faco
was still flushed at what I had said,
but I was only too glad that she had
not taken offense.
“The game was now beginning to get
intense. I was waiting for her to
show her hand at my call. I held a
pair and three of a kind.
“She answered my call and showed
her hand. She held two aces, two
kings and an odd card; three of clubs,
I think.
“I turned up my hand and in an in
stant she saw'that she had lost the
roses, for my ’full house' taken her
two pair. The flush in her cheeks
deepened a trifle.
“'I don’t believe you played fair,’
she cried. ‘I know you didn't. Year
cheated,’ and she laughed nervously
and blushed a little deeper.
“I explained carefully and fully, how
I had fairly beaten her, and at last she
was obliged to reluctantly acknowl
edge that I had won the game square
ly. But when I suggesteei that she
should settle her wager, her cheeks
grew rosier than ever.
“She drew hack hastily, and thinking
that she was about to escape out of
the room, I became suddenly bold, and
stepping quickly around {he little table
I bent and kisser her then and there,
and, as I did so, two cards fell front her
lap and lap, face upward, upon the
carpet at our feet.
“One was the ace of hearts and the
other was the king. Like a flash it
came to me. She had discarded her
two best cards. I understood now, thgt
the dear girl did not want to win—
she would not have discarded those
two cards unless she Intended to give
me the game.
“That's all there was to it, old man,”
said Jack as he threw his cigar into
the grate. “Of course, you know the
rest. I waited until the Judge had
finished his nap, which he very con
siderately prolonged for an hour and
a half, during which time I told Clio
all I had to say, and what I did say
was not a hit like what 1 had intended
and calculated to say. for somehow,
I had forgotten all about that nice
little speech I had written off and
learned by heart.
“When the Judge was at last wide
awake, I told him that I wished to
become a member of his family as
well as a member of his Arm, and the
old fellow didn’t say a word against
it. That's all. Come now, let's go to
bod.”
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ISLE OF HOPE LINE.
Leave 10th. and Leave Isle of Hope.
Whitaker Streets. for City.
a. mT~p. m. pTm. A. m. pTm. P. M.
7 ;30
830 ~..>v .... 800
93u 12 30 530 9 00' 12 00 600
10 30 130 600 10 00 100 630
11 30 230 630 11 00 230 700
S 00
MONTGOMERY LINE.'
Connecting at Sandfly with Isle of
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Leave 40th and Leave Montgom-
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aTm. pTm- a. m. p. m.
9.30 12 30 853 *l2 08
10 30 130 *lO 08 *1 08
11 30 2 30 *ll 08 2 20
8 00 * 8 50
•Connect at Casino with Thunder
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Via Cattle Park and Sandfly.
Leave Thun- Leave Mont
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a7mT P. M. A. M P. M.
9 35 12 38 8 53
10 38 1 38 10 08 12 08
11 38 8 10 *2 20
*3 2Q
| *4 20
*6 20
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•Connect at Sandfly with car for
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which time cars leave every 10 min
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Cars leave Bolton Street Junction
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Beginning at 7:08 a. m., cars leave
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time cars leave every 10 minutes as
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Beginning at 6:45 a. m., cars leave
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