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Updated: June 16, 2025
At last, one Friday evening, while I was engaged in my forlorn and unprofitable game, the butler entered the drawing-room with unperturbed announcement: "Mr. Chayne on the telephone, sir." I sent the card table flying amid the wreckage of my lay-out and rushed to the telephone. "Hullo! That you, Jaff?" "Yes, old man. Very much me. A devil of a lot of me. How are you?"
I may relate, therefore, that for some years I was known as the largest liquor dealer in the Territory, as well as one of the shrewdest hands at cards. Although I employed men to do the work, often players would insist on my dealing the monte deck or laying down the faro lay-out for them. I played for big stakes, too bigger stakes than people play for nowadays in the West.
He criticised the spacing and the general lay-out of the letter already typed, showed Dean how to imitate Matheson's little habits of typing, and arranged that the letters dictated should be retyped on hotel paper at Cherbourg and posted there. Dean was to catch a night train to Cherbourg, take steamer ticket there for Quebec, and proceed to Montreal.
Half an hour later the three emerged into the sunlight, Mr. Tooting and Mr. Watling smoking large cigars. "You've got a great lay-out here, Mr. Crewe," Mr. Watling remarked. "It must have stood you in a little money, eh? Yes, I'll get mileage books, and you'll hear from me every day or two."
"Indeed?" he replied, politely smothering a slight yawn. But he conceived a new respect for those infatuated men who so recklessly peppered the lay-out with chips singly and in little piles of five and ten worth one-hundred cents each! However, to save his face, he'd have to go through his twenty. But after that exit! He made this promise to himself.
He looked over the Lay-Out and decided that it was just as easy to mingle with the Face Cards as to sleep in the Discards. He saw many a Light Weight with a gilt sign exposed on Main Street and no Assets except a Suit with a Velvet Collar, a pair of indestructible dancing Legs, and just enough intellectual Acumen to stir Tea without spilling it.
She began to think how she could make Dr. Melton laugh with her account of Walter the Man. "The lay-out of the new power-house Elliott-Gridley works in Urbana," answered Paul, in a straightforward, reasonable tone, a little absent. Lydia stopped smiling. It was a tone he had never used to answer any business question she had ever put to him.
As the bows of the brig now rose and now plunged into the trough of the sea, I thought they must have been, to a certainty, washed away. The maintopsail was, in the meantime, taken in, and I felt that I was very glad I was not obliged to lay-out on the yard with the other men. It seemed a wonder how they were not shaken off into the sea, or carried away by the bulging sail.
Horse-racing, cock-fighting, and gambling on the combat of bear and bull, have not exhausted their passions. Public monte and faro leave them a few "doubloons" yet. Seated with piles of Mexican dollars before them, the young heroes enjoy a "lay-out." All their coin comes from Mexico.
The next thing that reached her comprehension was that James was speaking in a harsh metallic voice. She had never heard him speak like that before, and her fears swiftly increased as his words floated in through the open window. "Now, you skunk," he was saying, "you guess you're man enough to run this lay-out. You guess you're a bigger man than me.
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