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From roadside tent and gambling-hall, from houses and camp-fires, men and women poured into the streets. For Malapi was a shell-town, tightly packed and inflammable, likely to go up in smoke whenever a fire should get beyond control of the volunteer company.
And just as people left a card table, a few widows and orphans had to clear out of the big gambling-hall of life. It was as plain as day. To a man like Pell, a wife was a necessity but only a secondary consideration. Of course he must marry, keep up an expensive ménage, and prove to the world that he was successful even where women were concerned.
There's some mail for you in the office." "Thank you," said Holcombe. A few hours later Carroll was watching the roulette wheel in the gambling-hall of the Isabella when he saw Meakim come in out of the darkness, and stand staring in the doorway, blinking at the lights and mopping his face. He had been running, and was visibly excited.
In the gambling-hall bit it could be observed that he thought not too well of cigarettes. "He screens well, too," remarked the girl. "Of course I couldn't be sure of that." "He screens all right," agreed Baird. "Well, what do you think?" "I think he looks like the first plume on a hearse." "He looks all of that, but try again. Who does he remind you of?
If you have taken sides with us there's some hope left. Thank you for the risk you ran in warning me." She had moved to the front of the compartment and was peering forth between the draperies when she stifled a cry. "Too late! Too late! There they are. Don't part the curtains. They'll see you." Pushing through the gambling-hall were Voorhees and four others, seemingly in quest of some one.
As they reached the house an express wagon was being driven away. Automatically the license number registered itself in Tim's memory. The policeman took a key from his pocket and unlocked the door. The three went up the stairs to the deserted gambling-hall and through it to the rear room. "From what Lindsay says the bullet holes ought to be about as high as his arm pits," said Whitford.
He rode down Front Street heedless of danger, heedless of the comment his appearance might create, and, unseen, entered his enemy's stronghold. He passed a gambling-hall, through the windows of which came a sickly yellow gleam. A man came out unsteadily and stared at the horseman, then passed on.
Oh, it's been a TORTURE to me every day for the past two years." There was no semblance now to the cold creature she had appeared upon entering the gambling-hall. She spoke rapidly, her whole body tense with emotion, her voice shaken with passion. "I've seen men and men and men, and they've loved me, but I never cared for anybody in the world till I saw you. They ran after me, but you were cold.
After another party had been repulsed, Mrs. Cody asked me if I had brought her and the baby out on the Plains to be killed. "This is the kind of a life I lead every day and get fat on it," I said. But she did not seem to think it especially congenial. Everybody turned out to greet us when we arrived in Rome. Even the gambling-hall houses and the dance-halls closed in our honor.
I'll just step down first." At the foot of the stairs Cheyenne paused and glanced up and down the street. Directly across the way the Hole-in-the-Wall was ablaze with light. A few doors east of the gambling-hall an indistinct group of riders sat their horses as though waiting for some one. Cheyenne drew back into the shadows of the hallway. Bartley peered out over Cheyenne's shoulder.
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