Quite a number of black-eyed, fair looking women circulated among the crowd, and this, to us, seemed quite out of place, for we had never seen women in saloons before.

We watched the game awhile to see some losing and some gaining, the result being quite exciting; but as neither of us had any money, we could not have joined in the game had we been so disposed; so we looked on awhile and then took a seat on the ground outside of the house.
Here we talked over our chances of getting to the mines.

All the clothes we had were on our backs and feet and those were the poorest of the poor.

We had no money.

I had the little black-eyed mule, and Rogers had the watch Arcane had given him.