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Looks like all the Deef Woman wants is to be let alone, while she makes a play the best she can for a home-stake. "I pauses to mention, however, that durin' the week the Deef Woman turns her game at the piano for she don't stay only a week as the play runs out she comes mighty near killin' the dance-hall business.
"Sure, man, I know I said it, but I've been a-thinkin' different of late. Out in yon new region I've had strange thoughts, an' they overcome me. Thinks I to meself, I'm an old man without a home, an' no one to care for me whether I come or go. What's the use of me a-rustlin' fer a home-stake when there's never a one to share it with me?
We came to town to buy grub and a dog-team and to hire a crew of hands. We've got credit at the A. C. Company up to fifty thousand dollars." There was a brief pause which Pierce broke by inquiring, as casually as he could: "Did Tom and Jerry have any luck?" "Sure thing! They've hit it, the same as us. You tossed off a home-stake, kid. Don't believe it, eh?
As the time limit ain't up, I can't buck faro-bank none; but if you an' Ellis, Cherokee, can tol'rate a little draw, I'm your onmurmurin' dupe. "As I relates prior, the play is to let Ellis win a home-stake an' quit. At last they begins, Ellis seein' thar's no chance for faro- bank. Dan plays but little; usual, he merely picks up his kyards, cusses a lot, an' passes out.
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