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"One!" said Harris, after a moment. Redburn grew very pale, but not paler was he than the card-sharp just opposite. Redburn was no coward; neither was he accustomed to the desperate character of the population of the Hills. Should he shoot the tricky wretch before him, he knew he should be always calling himself a murderer.
As you are his victim or, rather, were to be it only remains for you to aim straight and rid your country of an A No. 1 dead-beat and swindler!" "Oh! no!" gasped Redburn, horrified at the thought of taking the life of a fellow-creature "I cannot, I cannot!" "You can!" said Harris, sternly; "go on you must salt that card-sharp, or I'll certainly salt you!" A deathlike silence followed.
"Therefore, I will tell you a short story, and you will see that my cause is just, as we look at these things here in this delectable country of the Black Hills. To begin with: "My name is, to you, Edward Harris!" and here the road-agent flung aside the black mask, revealing the smiling face of the young card-sharp. "I have another my family name but I do not use it, preferring Harris to it.
"Yah! yah! Ah'd like t' know Ah do know! He's got thet low-down card-sharp of a Matthews fer his interpreter. He knows thet card-sharp wants this lan'. Thet's his game! An' he kain't fool me!" "Maybe, maybe," said Dallas, leaving him to stand beside Marylyn. "But, of course, dad, we mustn't forget that he's warned the other folks on this side, too." Her father glared at her.
Your mother confessed her unfaithfulness by Heaven! She taunted him with it. Isbel accused me of winnin' her by lies. But she took the sting out of that. "Isbel never forgave her an' he hounded me to ruin. He made me out a card-sharp, cheatin' my best friends. I was disgraced.
He paused an instant, thinking that he heard a movement in a bush nearby. "Well, that's all," he finished, "except this: If I find you here tomorrow, Alec McTurpin, murderer, card-sharp and abductor, I'll shoot you down like a dog." And then, with a splendid piece of bravery, he turned his back on the gambler, walking away with never a backward glance.
I can't spring him alone on the family circle, and I don't want to hurt his feelings!" "Call it off, Marsh; say I couldn't come; that's a good enough excuse to give Gilmore. Why, that fellow's a common card-sharp, you can't ask Evelyn to meet him!" A slight noise in the hall caused both men to glance toward the door, where they saw just beyond the threshold the swarthy-faced Gilmore.
"Come, come!" laughed Frank, after a while; "I can hear your teeth chattering, old man. Get off that trunk and turn in." "Wait!" fluttered Jack "wait till I see this hand played out." In less than half a minute he cried: "It's a skin game! I knew it was!" "What's the lay?" asked Merry. "That infernal Frenchman is a card-sharp!" "I suspected as much." "His pal is the Englishman.
For a moment Talbot, as though fearing he had gone too far, looked at me sharply; he bit his lower lip and frowned. "I got to make expenses," he muttered. "And, besides, all card games are games of chance, and a card-sharp is one of the chances. Anyway," he repeated, as though disposing of all argument, "I got to make expenses."
When I saw the change in proud, beautiful Ellen Sutton, an' how she still worshiped Jorth, it shore drove me near mad between pity an' hate.... Wal, I reckon in a Texan hate outlives any other feelin'. There came a strange turn of the wheel an' my fortunes changed. Like most young bloods of the day, I drank an' gambled. An' one night I run across Jorth an' a card-sharp friend. He fleeced me.
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