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The double-cross would have been an excellent racing trade-mark for the Pitkin stable, because Pitkin had double-crossed every one who ever trusted him, every one with whom he had come in contact. He had even double-crossed old Gabe Johnson, his negro trainer, and the history of that cross will furnish an accurate index on the smallness of Pitkin's soul.
"That's talking," she said enthusiastically. "You can attend to him. Any one else?" Carson shook his head. "I got my suspicions," he said. "But that's all I'm dead sure on." "The others can wait then. Now, I'm taking a gamble on you and Lee. You have all kinds of chances to double-cross me. But I've got to take a chance now and then.
We're rough enough and tough enough, and we maybe shoot up each other now and again, but we ain't like city folks; we don't double-cross women. Not ever." She said nothing, and when they had walked four steps farther he added with a sincere wish to set her at ease: "I could take you to some ranch and leave you till the license comes, if you think it wouldn't be all right to get married now.
And he shot Longtree down as a man would shoot a trapped wolf. Framed in the office doorway stood Pony Baxter, a blue automatic in his hand. The Spider, leaning against the roulette table, laughed. "Gave me the double-cross, eh, Pony? How do you like the layout?" He swayed and clutched at the table. "Don't kill me, Pony!" he cried, in ghastly mimickry of Longtree's voice.
Something dark and lingering like iodine had given her chin the double-cross and her apron looked like the remnants of a porous plaster. Her right hand had red, white, green, purple, and magenta marks all over it, and her left hand looked like the Fourth of July. "John!" she yelled; "here it is! My goodness, I am so excited! See what a fine picture of you I took!"
All in a moment there was a deadly surcharged atmosphere there. "Well, he swore right!... Now what's it to you?" Apparently the fact and its confession were nothing particular to Gulden, or else he was deep where all considered him only dense and shallow. "It's done. Bill's dead," continued Gulden. "But why do you double-cross the gang? What's the game?
The message had not reached him; and its suppression was doubtless another move in the subtle game. "You say you couldn't find out what Gryson wanted?" he pressed. "He he seemed to be all torn up about something; couldn't say three words without putting a cuss word in with them. The most I could get out of him was that somebody was trying to double-cross him."
But you ain't got nothin' on me, an' you can't buy me out for a million dollars, an' you ain't got money enough there ain't money enough in the world to make me double-cross Bob McGraw just because he's a outlaw from justice." He tapped Carey on the knee with his fat forefinger. "I'm playin' look- out on this game, an' it's hands off for you. You can't make a bet.
Let there be not so much as the faintest odour of the double-cross about this business. All I ask is that you allow me to accompany you to where the Nugget is hidden, and then rely on my wider experience of this sort of game to get him safely away and open negotiations with the dad. 'I suppose your experience has been wide? I said. 'Quite tolerably quite tolerably.
Wait. Play for time. Be different with her. Cut out your drinking. She despises that. Let's plan to sell out here stock, ranch, property and leave the country. Then you'd have a show with her." "I told you we've got to stick," growled Lawson. "The gang won't stand for our going. It can't be done unless you want to sacrifice everything." "You mean double-cross the men? Go without their knowing?
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