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He crouched over his stake with guarding mien as old Hun took up the box and shook the dice. They fell near his hand, scattering a little, rolling over to the edge of his money as they settled down. He had won again. This extraordinary luck seemed to turn the bettor's head. He spread out his fingers, leaning lower over his stake, as if to prevent its being swept away by violence or mistake.
I mean that the bettor's badge number will be in line with that bet, an' you can probably find out the number of the badge this rooster wore." An inspiration came with Farrell's words came to Crane. Why had he not thought of that before? Still it didn't matter. The badge number, Mortimer's number, would be in Faust's book where had been entered the hundred dollars Mortimer put on Lauzanne.
Lauzanne is nine to one; how much dye want?" "Lay me ten?" asked Old Bill of the bookmaker. "To how much?" "A hun'red; an' me frien' wants a hun'red on, too." "I'll do it," declared Faust, impatiently. "Ten hundred to one, Lauzanne!" he called over his shoulder to his clerk, taking the bettor's money; "an' the number is ?" "Twenty-five, tree-four-six!" answered Old Bill.
The bettor's friends at once began sympathizing with him, but he looked at Terry and asked if he considered that a good shot. "Yes, I consider that pretty good," said Terry. "I brought him down, and the bet was that I couldn't hit him. I consider it a good shot because he was up so high that he could scarcely have been brought down even with a shotgun."
When a man requests this privilege it means that he will call the amount of his wager without producing the visible stakes, and the dealer may accept or refuse according to his judgment of the bettor's responsibility. It is safe, for no man shirks a gambling debt in the North, and thousands may go with a nod of the head though never a cent be on the board.
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