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The mate in a melancholy voice thanked her, and to the great annoyance of the cook, who had received strict orders from the forecastle to listen as much as he could, sat in silence while the table was cleared. "What do you say to a hand at cards?" he said, after the cook had finally left the cabin. "Three-handed cribbage," said Mrs. Tipping, quickly; "it's the only game worth playing."
Alice has advertised our romantic story, you see." She clasped her hands together and adopted a pose in caricature of the play heroine in an ecstasy of egomania. But Martin's laugh was short and hollow. He wasn't amused. "How did you get on?" he asked. "Lost seventy dollars that's all. Three-handed bridge with Grandfather and Grandmother was not a good apprenticeship. I must have a few lessons.
He finally found his son on the porch, apparently alone, and stated his errand. "Thank you, but I don't believe I care to play this evening," was the astounding reply, and Mr. Ellsworth looked closer. He made out, then, a dim figure on the other side of Ralph. "Oh! Of course not!" he blundered, and went back to the woodshed. Three-handed poker is a miserable game, and it seldom lasts long.
Don't know where he went exactly somewhere up Flagstaff-way, I think. But I can find out for you if you want to write to him." "Oh, no nothing particular. Just wanted a chin with him." "Better try the cards a whirl, Pete," urged the gambler. "I don't want to start up for a three-handed game." Pete considered.
Whoever he was, this Creighton guy had come the wrong evenin'. Course, I judged it must be Vee he's callin' on, and I wasn't strong for a three-handed session just then. There was something special I wanted to talk over with Vee this particular evenin', and I couldn't see why But, my first glimpse of Clyde soothes me down a lot. He has curly gray hair, also a mustache that's well frosted up.
"Why not," commented Straw. "Let me in and we'll make it three-handed. My herd is contracted again this year to the same cattle company on the Crazy Woman, in Wyoming, as last season, and I want to fool them this trip. They got gay on my hands last summer, held me down to the straight road brand at delivery, and I'll see to it that there are no strays in my herd this year.
There was not much for her to do she saw at once that the boy was different from the officers, a simple-minded creature, strong, gentle and clean-living, with deferential eyes and manners. Joanna liked him at first sight, and relented. They had tea together, and a game of three-handed bridge afterwards Ellen had taught her sister to play bridge.
"By the way, remind me, if you think of it, Colonel Farrell, to get after the telegraph-clerk to-morrow. There's a new man in charge a Bengali babu and I presume he's about as worthless as the run of his kind." Amber made a careful note of this information; he was curious about that babu. In the drawing-room Raikes and Farrell impressed Clarkson for three-handed Bridge.
But her hand was at the side nearest him, where he could seize it. She started to pass its contents behind her to the other hand but he jumped and caught it. "Myrtle! Quick!" she called. Myrtle came. It was a three-handed struggle. In the midst of the contest Stella twisted and rose to her feet. Her hair brushed his face. He held her tiny hand firmly. For a moment he looked into her eyes.
"What about Madame? Someone's got to keep her occupied! What's to happen to her in the evenings now? There'll be nothing for it but a three-handed game, and that's the limit! If you'd been a kind, self-sacrificing friend, you'd have stayed on, and worked that piquet for all you were worth!" "But I'm not self-sacrificing, you see!" Captain Guest explained, and in truth he did not look it.
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