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Updated: May 4, 2025

That gentleman, daintily picking a fleck of dust from his cuff, looked unconcernedly off into the sky, whistling softly, and Courtney, pushing his hand into the discard, lighted a cigar, while the colonel met Washer's raise and added a tantalizing white chip. It was now Washer's turn for consideration, and he studied his only remaining opponent with much interest.

George Randolph Chester - Five Thousand an Hour : how Johnny Gamble won the heiress

Ja'afar answered, "O Commander of the Faithful, do thou imprison him; whoso built the first jail was a sage, seeing that a jail is the grave of the living and a joy for the foe." So the Caliph bade lay him in bilboes and write thereon, "Appointed to remain here until death and not to be loosed but on the corpse washer's bench;" and they cast him fettered into limbo.

Anonymous - The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04

"It was Johnny Gamble did that. I open this pot right under the guns for the size of it and an extra sky-blue for luck. None of you old spavins was ever able to get me single-handed. A young fellow like Johnny Gamble that's different. It's his turn. You fellows are all afraid of my threes." "The others might be, so I'll just help them stay out," stated Courtney kindly as he doubled Washer's bet.

George Randolph Chester - Five Thousand an Hour : how Johnny Gamble won the heiress

Colonel Bouncer, having now made up his mind, deliberately and with nice care measured up blue chips and red chips and white chips matching Washer's, and added to them all the blue ones he had in his possession. "Taking any stock yourself, Johnny?" he softly asked. "Can't afford it," confessed Johnny with a smile.

George Randolph Chester - Five Thousand an Hour : how Johnny Gamble won the heiress

"Leaving you to try to forget the hundred and twenty-five thousand you've already spent," figured Gamble. "Nice cheery thought of Washer's! Of course you applauded?" "With a brick if I'd had one!" declared Courtney still angry. Johnny smiled and looked thoughtfully out over the sunlit greensward. There were electrifying plays down there; but, "fan" though he was, he did not see them.

George Randolph Chester - Five Thousand an Hour : how Johnny Gamble won the heiress

And then, of a sudden, he took to his heels, burst through the crowd, and hurried toward one of the college buildings. At the same time, Filbury started to run for one of the stables. "Say, Tom, that was rather rough," remarked Sam, after the two had disappeared. "It sure was, Sam. I didn't think they would run the carriage into the water like that." "It was Washer's and Lamar's fault."

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