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He signalled a confederate with a hooked nose; the Jew rascal bid against the Christian scoundrel, and so they ran up the more enticing things to twice their value under the hammer. Rosa got flushed, and her eye gleamed like a gambler's, and she bought away like wildfire. In which sport she caught sight of an old gentleman, with little black eyes that kept twinkling at her.
A gambler's word is as good as his bond, and that is more than I can say of many business men who stand very high in a community. I would rather take a true gambler's word than the bond of many business men who are to-day counted worth thousands. The gambler will pay when he has money, which many good church members will not. Hobbes, the philosopher, says man is the only animal that laughs.
Evidently he meant to keep the two apart until he had gained from each whatever it was he sought. But what could that be? What family secret could Willoughby have blurted out in his cups, which had so stimulated the gambler's wits? Two things combined to cause Keith to determine he would uncover this rascality, his desire to repay Hawley, and his interest in the girl rescued on the Salt Fork.
He was finding it hard to take offense at the gambler's bluntness. "I think you're a dead-game sport, Hennage" he said, and there was no doubt that he meant it. "But I shall not despair. You have brains. Some day, I feel assured, we shall sit down together like sensible men and do business." "And in the meantime" replied Mr.
Phillips, "he has the reputation of being one of the worst young men in our city; a base gambler's stool-pigeon, some say." "I am glad to know it, sir," Martin had the presence of mind, in the painful confusion that overwhelmed him, to say, "and shall treat him accordingly." He went back to his desk, and resumed his work.
"They said I'd been swiping bananas up in Gambler's alley, and that wasn't true." "Well, how in the name of all the seven wonders of the world did you get into the Hudson Bay country?" demanded George. "Old Finklebaum," answered Thede. "Old Finklebaum?" repeated George. "Do you mean the old Shylock who does business under the three balls down on State street?
The gambler's scorn was withering, and with each burst of it he flourished his arms as though handing out possessions to an imaginary James. And every word he spoke smote Scipio, goading him and lashing up the hatred which burnt deep down in his heart for the man who had ruined his life. But the little man's thought of Jessie was not so easily set aside, and he jumped to defend himself.
"What d' you think of a man that'd go off and leave a lady without half enough to eat, while he gallivanted around, trying to raise money by gambling, when he was offered a good job up here? He's a gambler told me he was a rich mine-owner, but never touched a mine in his life. Lying hound worst talker in ten counties! Got a gambler's hand on him, too I ought to seen it!
Pale with fury, he flung, as it were, the estate the Swiss had won from him at his feet, amid no lack of insulting words. At first Heinz listened to the luckless gambler's outbreak of rage in silent amazement, but when the latter began to threaten, and even clapped his hand on his sword, the composure which never failed him in the presence of anything that resembled danger quickly returned.
If a policeman had come in sight up or down the street, he had decided to call him and to acquaint him with what had happened. It was the one chance he held against himself, the gambler's method of decision, perhaps, unconsciously arrived at. As it turned out, there was still not a soul in sight. Laverick opened the outer door with his latchkey, let himself in and closed it.
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