They had done Doctor Kirby and Looey like they always done a drummer or a stranger that come along to that town and was fool enough to play poker with them.

They wasn't a chancet fur an outsider.

If the drummer lost, they would take his money and that would be all they was to it.

But if the drummer got to winning good, some one would slip out'n the hotel and tell Si Emery, which was the city marshal.

And Si would get Ralph Scott, that worked fur Jake Smith in his livery stable, and pin a star onto Ralph, too.