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His draw had been so swift that nobody had caught the elusive movement. "This game is bein' played with cahds, even if they are crooked cahds, and not guns, sah!" "Crooked!" breathed Blacksnake. "Are yuh hintin' that I'm a crook?" "I'm not hintin'," said The Kid, with a flashing smile. "I'm sayin' it right out. The aces in that deck were marked in the cornahs with thumb-nail scratches.
He was still seated at the card table, laying out a game of solitaire, when the swinging doors of the saloon opened quietly. The first inkling Hardy had of a stranger's presence, however, was the soft drawl of a familiar voice: "Good mohnin', Mistah Hahdy! Enjoyin' a little game o' cahds?" Hardy's body remained stiff and rigid for a breathless moment, frozen with surprise.
It might have gone hahd with me, if I hadn't mahked the othah cahds too with thumb-nail scratches!" "Yuh admit yuh marked them cards?" yelled Blacksnake in fury. "What about it, men? He's a cheat and ought to be strung up!" Most of the onlookers were doing their best to conceal grins, and even Blacksnake's sympathizers made no move to do anything.
She cut short her history of the affair to say when Clementina came back, "I want you should do the odderin' yourself, Miss Milray, and not let her scrimp with the money. She wants to git some visitin' cahds; and if you miss anything about her that she'd ought to have, or that any otha yong lady's got, won't you just git it for her?"
"No use fo' us to show ouahselves until we know how the cahds are stacked," the Texan said grimly. "Nevah mind, Dave. They'll pay fo' it!" It was hard to tell just how many of their enemies might be lurking in the tulles or beyond them. They were soon to find that there were far too many. Gunfire began to blaze out in sharp, reëchoing volleys.
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