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"Which the first intimations we has of Silver Phil after that escape, is one evenin' about fifth drink time or as you-all says 'four o'clock. The sun's still hot an' high over in the west. Thar's no game goin'; but bein' it's as convenient thar as elsewhere an' some cooler, Cherokee's settin' back of his layout with Faro Nell as usual on her lookout perch.
"'Miss, says this Holliday, 'I feels honoured to find myse'f across the layout from so much sperit an' beauty. A limit of one hundred, says you; an' your word is law! As a first step then, give me three thousand dollars worth of chips an' make 'em fifty dollars each.
I recall it struck me that Alan would want to do it also. And, perhaps, even Glora. But that wouldn't work. My chances, however desperate, were better alone. Glora and Alan in our present size could doubtless disembark safely. Glora knew the layout of the island. And she could follow Polter.
You got a chanct. I sized up the layout." "Nothin' doin'. Why don't you try it yourself?" "'Cause they'll git one of us, anyhow, and it'll be the fella that stays." "Then I'll flip a dollar to see which stays," said Pete. Before Brevoort could speak, Pete drew a dollar from his pocket and flipped it toward his companion. It fell between them. "I say heads," said Pete.
"'You-alls present knows me, says Cherokee Hall, who, as I says previous, is turnin' faro in the Red Light, 'an' most of you has met me frequent in a business way. Thar's my game goin' every night reg'lar. Thar's nothin' tin-horn about it. It ain't no skin game neither. Any gent with doubts can step over an' test my box, which he'll find all comfortable on the layout awaitin' his convenience.
"Just as soon do it, myself, now, anyhow. I expect to be in and out with the car while I'm here, and I'd better learn the layout of the garage now." "You may back in, sir, or drive straight in and back out," the butler told him. "One way's about as easy as the other." Rand returned to his car, driving around the house.
"Ye ought to lift one side of the canvas and get some air." "Why, did the real Injuns do that?" "I should say they did. There ain't any way they didn't turn and twist the teepee for comfort. That's what makes it so good. Ye kin live in it forty below zero an' fifty 'bove suffocation an' still be happy. It's the changeablest kind of a layout for livin' in.
For the first time Camp Almy awoke to the conclusion that an experienced gambler was in their midst one who had spared the soldier and his scanty pay that he might feed fat, eventually, on the officer. Rumor had it that Case's trunk contained a roulette wheel and faro "layout."
You ought to know that by this time." "Maybe I do, Bob, and maybe I like knowing it." "I hope you do, but it wouldn't make any difference whether you did or didn't. I got to love you. I guess the cards fell that way for me before I was born and nothing can ever change that layout." "You've never failed me yet, Bob." "And never will. Oh, Pearl, don't you, can't you see your way to marrying me?"
"We talked on a while, me and Perry, and, as sure as I live, that man interrupted me in the middle of my talk to tell me about six tomato plants he had growing in his garden. Shoved his agricultural degradation right up under my nose while I was telling him about the fun we had tarring and feathering that faro dealer at California Pete's layout! But by and by Perry shows a flicker of sense.
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