. PAYING A FINE."               335
"You had better get some help," said Bill. The officer then called up another policeman, and Bill again asked:
" How many of you are there now ?"
"Two," was the reply. ,.
"Then I advise you to go out and get some more reinforcements," said Bill, very coolly.
The policemen thereupon spoke to the sheriff, who was dressed in citizen's clothes. The sheriff came up and said he would have to take him into custody.    X
"All right, sir," replied Bill, "I have  objections to walking out with you, but I won't go witany two policemen."  At the court next morning Bill stated his reasons for having acted as he had done, and the judge fined him only three dollars and costs.
This was the last time that Wild Bill appeared on the stage. He shortly afterwards returned to the West, and on arriving at Cheyenne, he visited Boulder's gambling room; and sat down at a faro table. No one in the room recognized him,as he had not been in Cheyenne for several years. After losing two or three bets he threw down a fifty dollar bill and lost that also. Boulder quietly raked in the money. Bill placed a second fifty dollar note on another card, when Boulder informed him that the limit was twenty-five' dollars.
"You have just taken in a fifty dollar bill which I lost," said Bill.
"Well you needn't make any more such bets, as I will not go above my limit," replied Boulder.
"I'll just playthat fifty dollar bill as it lays. If it loses, it's yours; if it wins, you'll pay me fifty dollars, or I'll know the reason why."
"I am running this game, and I want no talk from you, sir," said Boulder.
One word brought on another, until Boulder threatened to have Bill put out of the house. Bill was carrying the butt end of a  iliard cue for a cane, and bending over the table, hesid: "Y ou'd rob a blind man." Then he suddenly
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