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With one lunge he knocked Riggs flat, then stood over him with a convulsive hand at his gun. "You white-livered card-sharp! I've a notion to bore you.... They told me you had a deal of your own, an' now I believe it." "Yes I had," replied Riggs, cautiously getting up. He was ghastly. "But I wasn't double-crossin' you.
But Sweetwater, laying his hand on the arm he knew to be so sensitive, rose on tiptoe and managed to whisper in the angry man's ear: "You are a card-sharp, and it will be easy enough to ruin you. Threaten Frederick Sutherland and in two weeks you will be boycotted by every club in this city. Twenty-five hundred dollars won't pay you for that."
Then he sank softly to his knees. In both his hands he caught the hand of the card-sharp. "Heine!" he begged. "Don't you know me? It is your brother Adolph; your little brother Adolph!" Had the Wilmot Electric Light people remained content only to make light, had they not, as a by-product, attempted to make money, they need not have left Hayti.
The fingers were as white and soft as any girl's. In his hand he also held a strangely-angled little box, the sides of which were mirror-glass. Looking at his finger-nails he also looked into the mirror, which gave a complete view of the card-sharp, as he sat at the table.
How do you know I won't go straight from here to the captain?" As though the suggestion greatly entertained him, he laughed. He made a mock obeisance. "I claim the seal of your profession," he said. "Nonsense," I retorted. "It's a professional secret that your nerves are out of hand, but that you are a card-sharp is not. Don't mix me up with a priest."
So he took "squint" at the gambler's left breast after which Harris withdrew the siege of his left weapon, although he still covered the young Easterner, the same. Quietly he moved around to where the card-sharp sat, white and trembling. "Gentlemen!" he yelled, in a clear, ringing voice, "will some of you step this way a moment?"
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."
"What'll we do with this snake and, his weak-minded brother?" asked Jeff dryly. "Tie 'em up and ship 'em into Paloma?" "Fire off your revolver two or three times," suggested Tom, who had caught a faint, far away sound of an automobile. "That may bring a machine over here." "You shoot, Rafe," urge Moore. "I'll want to keep my weapon handy for this crooked card-sharp."
I'll show you, you skin, you card-sharp! Yes, you cheated! You cheated! You cheated!" "Well, let's go at it, then, mister," said Johnnie, coolly. The cowboy's brow was beaded with sweat from his efforts in intercepting all sorts of raids. He turned in despair to Scully. "What are you goin' to do now?" A change had come over the Celtic visage of the old man.
The same gentry A saw that night under your Ridge, saving his High Mightiness. The evil fellow wi' the sheep hide leggings, an' the one armed blackguard in the cow-boy slicker, an' the corduroy dandy wi' the red tie, an' four more of them same card-sharp gentry. A rode 'long the top of y'r gully an' poured six bullets after 'em! Man alive!
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