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Thar ain't a gent who's game to make a move. Seein' we ain't got a kyard left to play, this yere Pinon Bill grins wide an' satisfactory, an' swings into the saddle. "All this time which, after all, it ain't so long the baby ain't sayin' nothin', and takes the deal in plumb silence. But jest as Pinon Bill lands in the saddle it onfurls a yell like a wronged panther.
An' so I passes it up. "'You sees, says Boggs, 'thar's no good tryin' to hold out kyards on your Redeemer. If your heart ain't right it's no use to set into the game. No cold deck goes. He sees plumb through every kyard you holds, an' nothin' but a straight deal does with Him.
"How much what?" demanded Mr. Sorber, bending his brows upon the Irishman, while the children waited breathlessly. "Money. Neale's a big drawin' kyard ye say yerself. Then, how much money will ye take for your right to him?" Mr. Sorber laid down his knife and fork and stared at Mr. Murphy. "Do you mean that, sir?" he asked, with strange quietness.
But the good old Jedge don't mind, an' openin' the door, he goes out into the night an' the dark, an' carefully picks his way overboard into forty foot of water. The yell the Jedge emits as he makes his little hole in the Cumberland is the first news them kyard sharps gets that they're afloat a whole lot. "'It ain't no push-over rescooin' Jedge Finn that time.
Of course, I calls this crooked game a "brace" in speakin' tharof to you-all sports who ain't really gamblers none. That's to be p'lite. But between us, among a'credited kyard sharps, a brace game is allers allooded to as "the old thing." If you refers to a game of chance as "the old thing," they knows at once that every chance is 'liminated an' said deevice rigged for murder.
'Why, no, Nellie; I don't kill him speecific as Wolfville onderstands the word; but I dismisses him so effectual the kyard shore falls the same for Silver Phil." Colonel Sterett's Panther Hunt,
'This Vance don't deal faro-bank; he jest don't do nothin' but talk. Thar we sets, our bets on the layout, an' we don't get no action. This Vance won't deal a kyard for fear we don't hear about that brother Abe Groggins of his'n. "Them criticisms makes Jenkins plenty quer'lous. He rounds Vance up an' curries him a whole lot.
"I believe er I had the honah to send up my kyard!" The colonel paused, and placed his right hand statuesquely on his heart. The two women trembled Miss Tish fancied the very shirt frill of the colonel was majestically erecting itself as they stammered in one voice, "Ye-e-es!" "That kyard contained my full name with a request to see my ward Miss Stannard," continued the colonel slowly.
But disapp'intment chokes the camp; the next kyard is a ace, an' Cherokee's swept off his moccasins. The bank is broke; and to signify as much, Cherokee turns his box on its side, counts over forty thousand dollars to this Holliday an' gets up from the dealer's cha'r. "As Cherokee rises, Faro Nell slides off the lookout's stool an' into the vacated cha'r.
It was well toward noon, and Eddring was busying himself about other matters, when he heard the knock of his faithful henchman, Jack, and bade him enter. "Lady done sent me over f'om de hotel, sah," said Jack. "I brung her trunk up f'om de de-pot. Heah's her kyard. She's over to the hotel, an' wants you to come oveh dah." Eddring started to his feet as he saw the name upon the card.
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