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Updated: June 14, 2025
They were so white that I might have mistaken them for alabaster or snow, had he not assured us they were made of bone. He told us that twenty chance devils very much feared in our country dwelt there in six different storeys, and that the biggest twins or braces of them were called sixes, and the smallest ambs-ace; the rest cinques, quatres, treys, and deuces.
That was what had made Morgan's face light up as his life had ebbed away. And Harlan's eyes glowed now with the recollection. "The damned cuss how he did brighten up!" he mused. "He sure was a heap tickled to know that the deck wasn't all filled with dirty deuces." And then Harlan's thoughts went again to Lamo, and to the picture Barbara had made running toward him.
And I think the one beatific visage it has been my good luck to behold belonged to Fat Joe, one night when the rest of the table had raised his very feet out from under him. He sat and beamed; he radiated good cheer now and then he chuckled with positively insulting self-confidence, while he was pushing forward all the chips he owned . . . and he had two deuces and four spades to back it up!
In the idiom of Ventura Boulevard, he'd hit 'em with the whole deck, deuces wild. He'd give 'em sex and money and superstition and to hell with fact and logic. These primitive worlds had to be brought slowly into a respect for logic; for Ipplinger logic, the only valid system of logic in the whole universe.
Besides, we can always have a game of deuces wild going evenings and " "No use, Babe," breaks in Mr. Robert. "It can't be done. That sort of thing is all well enough for a foot-loose old bach such as you, but with me it's quite different." "The little lady at home, eh?" says Babe. "I'll bet she'd be glad to get rid of you for a couple of months." "Flatterer!" says Mr. Robert.
"You're what I call a thoroughbred," said the latter. "Man, can you play poker? You certainly can make a pair of deuces look like a full house. Get up an' shake hands. You're right. The boat's yours. Uncle Sam can wait the whole damned North American continent can wait " Eddring rose and took him by the hand. "Well, that's my case, Captain," said he.
Washington White's card and Lady Crackenbury's card which our little friend had been glad enough to get a few months back, and of which the silly little creature was rather proud once Lord! lord! I say, how soon at the appearance of these grand court cards, did those poor little neglected deuces sink down to the bottom of the pack. Steyne!
He slipped onto his bunk and lay with his hands folded under his head, thinking; for between the danger from the leader of the mutiny and the danger from McTee and Henshaw, he was utterly confused. He made out the voices of the two gamblers, Hall and Cochrane. "Three deuces to beat," said Hall. "I'd beat three fives to get Van Roos," answered Cochrane.
He crossed over and entered the drug store. Except for a sleepy clerk at the rear there was no one visible within the place. Trencher crowded his bulk into the booth, dropped the requisite coin in the slot and very promptly got back the answering hail from a certain number that he had called a number at a place in the lower fringe of the old Tenderloin. "Is that the Three Deuces?" asked Trencher.
"There's a mighty big world to buy, an' when you got your fencing set up around it, why, there ain't a deal left outside that's worth corrallin'. I'd say it's only the folk who fancy the foolish house need to try an' buy a big pot on a pair o' deuces. If you stand on a 'royal' you can grab most anything. I got this thing figgered to a cent.
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