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Updated: June 21, 2025
That hour was the dullest of the twenty-four in the gambling-houses, for the evening shift was on its way to work and the day shift had not yet come off. The Earps were dealing faro in the Oriental. To the onlooker who does not know its hazards faro is a funereal game. The dealer slides one card and then a second from the box. The case-keeper moves a button or two on his rack.
He feared there were other faro-dealers present who might understand the hint, but there was none save Mexico Mullins, whose face was a study mirth seemed to be strangling him. A moment later the girl spoke to the case-keeper again. "Let me take your place; your reins are unbuckled."
"Why don't you bet?" snapped Bray; but Rimrock jerked his head and beckoned him to go on. "Yes, and lose half on splits," he answered grimly, "I'll bet when it comes the last turn." The deal went on till only three cards remained in the bottom of the box. By the record of the case-keeper they were the deuce and the jack the top card, already shown, did not count.
Why, mother tho't so much o' that man, she was so much heart an' soul with 'im that she learned to be the best case-keeper you ever saw. Many a sleeper she caught! You see, when she played, she was playin' for the ol' man." She stopped as if overcome with emotion, and then added with great feeling: "I guess everybody's got some remembrance o' their mother tucked away.
Kirby rapped sharply upon the table with the steel hook that served as his left hand, then, when a waiter cleared a passageway through the crowd, he mutely invited the house employees to drink. The dealer declined, the lookout and the case-keeper ordered whisky, and Kirby signified by a nod that the same would do for him. But his daughter laid a hand upon his arm.
Everything went on all right. The first case that showed on the case-keeper they all jumped on to play it open, as they wanted to break the snap, as then I would open another; but the case lost, and I was a good big winner over the last deal.
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