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I got you here to give you a chance to put Van Buren out of commission and make a lifetime winning." Culver looked at him sharply. "It must be something crooked." "Nothing's crooked that works out straight," said McCoppet. "What's life anyhow but a sure-thing game? It's stacked for us all to lose out in the end.
"I have a number of things in view," I evaded. "Well, you don't have to tell 'em," he granted. "Thought you was a salesman. I'm from Saint Louie, myself. Sell groceries, and pasteboards on the side. Cards are the stuff. I got the best line of sure-thing stock strippers, humps, rounds, squares, briefs and marked backs that ever were dealt west of the Missouri.
He liked, too, the off-hand deference of the men about him, from turnstile to betting shed, once his calling was known. They were all ready to curry favor with him, touts and rail-birds, dockers and owners, jockeys and gamblers and bookmakers, placating him with an occasional "sure-thing" tip from the stables, plying him with cigars and advice as to how he should place his money.
While Larry was keeping at this grind something was happening to Larry of which he was not then conscious: something which was part of the big development in him that was in time to lead him far. A confidence man is essentially a "sure-thing" gambler.
On that Monday he, venturing for the first time in six months, returned to Hanging Rock on the three-thirty train the richer by two hundred and fifty dollars as large a "killing" as he had ever made in any single day, one large enough to elevate him to the rank of prince among the "sure-thing snides."
But he showed no sign of his malady, save that he worked harder. All summer he fought mosquitoes and washed the sure-thing bars of the Stuart River for a double grubstake. Then he floated a raft of houselogs down the Yukon to Forty Mile, and put together as comfortable a cabin as any the camp could boast of.
Da stick-ups, da sure-thing guys, da dips, everybody gets orders to lay off, see?" Brennan whistled softly. "What's the 'Gink' got up his sleeve now, I wonder?" he said. "Soich me," said Murphy. "Are they obeying the 'Gink's' orders?" "I'll say they are!" asserted Murphy. "All the gamblin' places are closed and everybody stopped doin' business, see?
"Buck up, Old Top," said the faithful Prompter. "Fasten your Eye on the Ball and don't try to Force. He is sure to blow up sooner or later. Take another Lesson to-morrow morning and then publish your Defi in the afternoon." He never had been strong enough to stand off Ambition. So the next Day he took on Old Sure-Thing again and got it in the same Place. No wonder.
"When old Sure-Thing Leland comes to me to close the deal I want to laugh at him." Slowly the light died out of Shandon's eyes. Was this, after all, the opportunity for which he had yearned? He grew uncertain, a little troubled. An opportunity for what?
Green-goods men and blue-sky stock salesmen, race-course touts and sure-thing politicians get away with the same proposition in the U.S. every day of the week, and pocket millions by it. Only, just as happens to all such gentry on occasion, Yussuf Dakmar had the wrong fish in his net.
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