He offered to bet everything he'd won, or double or nothing, and when the boys didn't want to do that, it give him a clean hand to stand up and get out.

He got up and said good-bye and hung around a while to see how the next hands went.

So far as he could make out, Pete Reeve was losing pretty steady.

Then he come on in.
"Well, when Johnny Strange told about Pete being out there, Sheriff Anderson was in the room and he rises up.
"'Don't look good to me,' he says.

'If a gunfighter is losing money, most like he'll fight to win it back.