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The Colonel raised him back ten thousand more. Both of 'em stood pat. The Jedge bet him a hundred thousand. The Colonel called. 'What you got? says he. 'Ace high, says the Jedge; 'what you got? 'Pair o' deuces, says the Colonel." Assuredly the "play" in the Casino is entirely fair. It could hardly be otherwise with such crowds of players at the tables, often covering the whole "layout."
"'Which it's a-kicking of me in the stummick frequent and painful, he remarks, plenty wrathful. "'On general principles, I said, 'it's a royal flush to a pair of deuces as how this Blacklock bird ought to stop a heap of lead, and I know the man to throw it. He's the only brother of my sister, and tends chuck in a placer mine.
"Three eights and a pair of deuces," boasted the Westerner, exposing the full hand upon the board. "Beats three kings," admitted the other, ruefully laying down his hand. The winner pocketed the money with an exaggerated wink in the direction of the newspaper youth who had been an interested spectator.
Andy, breathless, for he had an ace down, saw a three and a two fall took the long chance, and, with the luck behind him, watched a five-spot flutter down to join his draw. Yet Larry, taking the same draw, was not busted. He had a pair of deuces and a four. There he stuck, and it stood to reason that he could not win.
For he had drifted about the earth like a log-end in the Atlantic, before his Lordship gave him his present berth. We passed, too, whole mornings at picquet, I learning enough of Horace to quote at the routs we both attended, but a deal more of kings and deuces. And as I may add, that he got no more of my money than did I of his. The wonder of it was that we never became friends.
She wouldn't let you be! Nothing was too good for you you were a king! Two deuces and a lazy smile would bluff a brace of aces. But just you let her guess that your straits were desperate. Just you let her guess that your last dollar was on the table! You couldn't catch a pair back to back in forty-seven years. She'd quit you flat! That was why they called luck a lady. Just like a woman!
The other players had become so interested in the result, that they withheld their stakes in order to watch it. Chorley commenced drawing the cards. Each one as it came forth caused a momentary thrill of expectancy; and when aces, deuces, or tres with their broad white margins appeared outside the edge of that mysterious box, the excitement became intense.
I haven't been able to understand him at all, and I don't understand him now." At length there came a big jack-pot. It was passed round several times. Then Hazleton opened it on three nines. Bloodgood sat next. He had two pairs, aces up, and he raised instantly. Montfort was the next man. He held a pair of deuces, but he saw all that had been bet, and doubled the amount! Mr.
'Is it as bad as all that? he says. 'See that other five and raise you twenty. 'You're too strong for me Red, says the gent that was bucking him and lays down to that pair of deuces! I read the letter: "'Dear Mr. Perris, "'I know you don't like to hire out. But this is a job where you won't have a boss.
"Somethin' that started things, somethin' that keeps the stars from runnin' each other down, but, after He wound up the clock He made, I don't figger He bothers much about the works. "Luck's the big thing that counts. We're all in on the deal. Some of us git the deuces an' treys, an' some git the aces. If yo're born lucky things go soft for you.
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