Daylight showed four queens and an ace; MacDonald four jacks and an ace; and Kearns four kings and a trey.

Kearns reached forward with an encircling movement of his arm and drew the pot in to him, his arm shaking as he did so.
Daylight picked the ace from his hand and tossed it over 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 good drawing hand." "You bet! You could a' made a straight, a straight flush, or a flush out of it." "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.