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could be heard the roaring dratt of the huge stove, and from without, muffled by the log walls, the howling of dogs. It was not every night that high stakes were played on the Yukon, and,' for that matter, this was the highest in : the history of the country. The saloonkeeper finally spoke:“If anybody else wins they*11 have to take a mortgage on the:Tivoli.”^ V-;*.,'.' The two other players nodded.;. ; “So I call, too/'MacDonald added his slip for five thousand.Not one of them claimed the pot, and not one of them called the size of his hand. Simultaneously and in silence they faced their cards; oh the table, while a general tiptoeing And craning of necks took place among the onlookers. Daylight showed four queens and an ace, MacDonald four jacks and an ace, and Kearns four kings and a tray. Kearns reached forward with an encircling movement of his arm and drew -the pot in to him, his arm shaking as he did so.Day light picked the ace from his^ hand and tossed it oyer alongside MacDonald's ace, saying:“That's what cheered me along, Mac. I knowed it was only kings that could beat me, and he had them.” “What did you-all have?” he asked,.all interest, turning to Campbell,“Straight flush of four, open at both ends—a gooddrawing hand.” ;; “You bet! v You could a-made a straight, a straight flush or a flush out of it.” v“That's what I thought,” Campbell said, sadly, “It cost me six thousand before I quit.”“I wisht you-all'd drawn,” Daylight laughed. “Then I wouldn't a-caught that fourth queen. Now I've got to take Billy Rawlins' mail contract and mush for Dyea. What's the size of the killing, Jack?”Kearns attempted to count the pojt, but was too excited. Daylight drew it across to him, with firm fingers separating and stacking the markers and I. O; U.'s and with clear, brain adding the sum.f'“Oiie ' hundred and- twenty-seven thousand,” he announced. “You-all can sell out now, Jack, and head for home.” ■ -But Daylight “What's theway? Wind's 01I sure can't lift He stood upo dcrs down till hi his feet Jslightly pull, then relaxec of all the levers French Louis “Pool lak hel Daylight's mi time in earnest, his splendid bod without jerk or rose from the flo like, between his Olaf Henders Virgin, who ha* hurt her, relaj reverently:“M'sieu Daylij are one beeg m: Daylight drop headed for the 1 “Weigh in!” h who transferred 1 of . the two loser;“Surge up, your snake juicel“This is my later. “I'm the ters. This is my I can put any nu going to put .yoi chaquos and soui/ The winner smiled and nodded, but seemed incapable of speech. ■'/ . . \* ‘“I'd shout the drinks,” MacDonald said, “only the house don’t belong to me any more.” ;: “Yes; it does,” Kearns replied, first wetting his lipswith his tongue. - “Your note's good for' any length of time: But the drinks are on me.”“Name your snake-juice, you-all—the winner pays!” Daylight called out loudly to all about him, at the same, time rising from his chair and catching the Virgin by the arm. “Come on for a reel, you-all dancers. The night's young yet and it’s Helen Breakfast and the mail contract for me in the morning. Here, you-all Rawlins, you—I' hereby do take over that .same contract, and I start . for salt water at nine a.m. Savvee? Come on, you-all!; - Where's that fiddler?” *THE BRT INI(cabout as free to over the great s down to them fro themselves had b “From time tlt; Indians themselve A very notable e; three Indian chi* made the jourhe; England, and halt;] the King. They s thing was very pi nothing. The chi document showing a * large amount c British Columbia.
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Vancouver BC Saturday Sunset
Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
Sat, Mar 25, 1911
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