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Updated: June 4, 2025
"A man who took big chances risks." "Not Steve," I smiled at her earnestness. "Steve was a piker always a tin-horn gambler. Hid away from the police instead of doing business with them. Take a chance? Not Steve." Worth had left the telephone and was leaning over her shoulder to read what she had typed.
"I know it," Mozart said, "but Pasinsky says that he didn't care, because a good salesman like him could always find it an opening somewhere, and anyway he wasn't stuck on working for a piker concern like yours." Abe rose with his eyes ablaze. "That settles it," he said, jamming his hat on his head. "I'm going for a policeman. I'll teach that sucker to steal my orders!"
Then I'll be willin' to quit or go back to the old limit, or keep right along with the lid off." I glanced at Dick; an' talk about jerk-lightnin'! Well, I can't see yet what kept Piker from gettin' scorched; but Jabez was in a good humor again from lookin' at his royalty, so he turns to Dick an' sez, "Now, Dick, Piker's company, you know, an' I reckon we'd better humor him. What do you say?"
"That shell was fired to-day," said the 'Piker, authoritatively. "The powder ain't dry in it. Boys," he glanced round at the circle of grim faces "let's take the San Lorenzy road." The squatters, reinforced by half a dozen men who had not entered the adobe, escorted their prisoners down the hill till they came to a large live oak, a conspicuous feature of the meadow beyond the creek.
Now, you listen to your uncle. My medicine's good. When I get a hunch it's sure right. An' we're in wrong on this stampede. Let's turn back an' hit the sleep." "You'd better save your breath if you intend to keep up," Smoke retorted gruffly. "Huh! My legs is short, but I slog along slack at the knees an' don't worry my muscles none, an' I can sure walk every piker here off the ice."
I know what I ought to be getting. He's got to do better by me or I'll quit. I'll show him that I'm no $100-a-week piker." "You've no right to say that, Jim," interrupted his wife. "Just think how good he is to Virginia. He's always giving her something. Only last week he bought her a diamond necklace which must have cost $5,000 if a cent."
First horse, I see him gallop like a good 'un. An' I'm a piker; I like a bit of odds fer my stuff." Mortimer saw the other occupants of the train moving toward the front end. "I guess we're dere," said his companion; "perhaps I'll see you on de course. If you make a break to-day, play Larcen; he'll win. Say, I didn't catch your name." "Mortimer." "Well, take care of yourself, Mr. Morton.
"I hates ye," she said out loud, slowly, leaning over the infant with a frown on her face, "but I hates yer ma worse than I hates you. Yer ma air a piker, she air." The babe whimpered and shivered. Tessibel wrapped its bare shoulders in a piece of the blanket. "I could throw ye out in the rain, I hates ye so," she burst forth in sudden anger. "Ye ain't no right in this shanty."
Come to think about it, I might go so far as to risk altogether as much, say, as eight or ten thousand dollars in this scheme of yours I don't want to be a piker." In the hundredth part of a second Marr's mind reacted; his brain was galvanized into speedy action.
"You think you broke me, do you?" he demanded insolently as Rimrock looked up from his count. "You can see for yourself," answered Rimrock contentedly, and held out his well-filled hat. "You're a piker!" yelled Bray. "You don't dare to come back at me. I'll play you one turn win or lose for your pile!"
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