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Updated: June 29, 2025
Billy paused for breath. "In yer future dealin' with the painter-man, Janet, jest do 'cordin' to yer new light. I ain't goin' t' worry or fret. Ye allus was one t' act clear headed if ye had hold o' facts." Janet dropped upon Billy's knee and hid her face against his. From such a shelter she could speak more freely; but oh! how different the confession was from what it once might have been!
Buckeye Pete was celebrating. He seemed to be suddenly flush with "dust" and was dispensing drinks with a liberality which soon brought him a numerous following. By midnight it was a well-mellowed assemblage. "Mignon, how long have you been dealin'?" "About tree, four mont', Monsieur." "I don't mean here. I mean altogether." "About six ye-ar, Monsieur." "You must be well off by this time.
I ses, an' no more talk to it Jim laid in alongside o' me. He's no hunger with a toppin' axe. 'Maybe, but I've seed him at a job o' throwin' in the woods, an' he didn't seem to make out no shape, said Jabez. 'He haven't got the shoulders, nor yet the judgment my opinion when he's dealin' with full-girt timber. He don't rightly make up his mind where he's goin' to throw her.
"Even the coyotes cashes in an' quits their howls whenever the Deef Woman drug her chair up to that piano an' throws loose. An' them coyotes afterward, when she turns up her box an' stops dealin', gets that bashful an' taciturn they ain't sayin' a word; but jest withholds all yells entire the rest of the night. "But thar's no use talkin' hours about the Deef Woman's music.
You git!" she cried; and when she was certain that he was gone she came back and took a seat at the table where she continued, in the same reminiscent vein as before: "I can see mother now fussin' over father an' pettin' 'im, an' father dealin' faro Ah, he was square! An' me a kid, as little as a kitten, under the table sneakin' chips for candy. Talk 'bout married life that was a little heaven!
With good, sensible shues on, dealin' out comfort to the amiable feelin' feet; rosy cheeks, bright eyes, all bearin' witness to the joys of sensible dressin' and sensible livin'. And then there wuz bright pert-lookin' young wimmen, travelin' alone in pairs, and havin' a good time to all human appearance. Anon good-lookin', manly men, with sweet pretty wives and a roguish, rosy little child or so.
"Brant's been too busy dealin' faro to think of 'em agin, and since that shootin' affair at Angels' I hear he's skipped to the southern coast somewhere. Cal Johnson, his old chum, was in the up stage from Stockton this afternoon." "Did you come by the up stage from Stockton this afternoon?" said Carden, looking up. "Yes, as far as Ten-mile Station rode the rest of the way here."
We're workin' in towards it now. "You sees, followin' the Stingin' Lizard's jump into the misty beyond which it's that sudden I offers two to one them angels notes a look of s'prise on the Stingin' Lizard's face as to how he comes to make the trip-Cherokee goes on dealin' faro same as usual. As I says before, he ain't no talker, nohow; now he says less than ever.
Then Langdon had promised to cooperate, now he, too, had closed up like a clam; he was as mute as an oyster. "Crane is dealin' the cards all the time," thought Faust; "but there's some game on, sure." He determined to back Diablo for himself at the long odds, and chance it.
"I never does know what the female towerist says or does to that partic'lar aborigine-nothin' most likely; but it ain't a day when one of them Injuns settles it with himse'f he wants to wed her. The towerists is in ign'rance of the views of this savage, who goes about dealin' his game Injun fashion.
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