"I was pretty sore by that time, I'm telling you! I was down to ten dollars, but I started right in to bring back that hundred and sixty.

Funny, but I felt exactly as if somebody had stolen that headstall and spurs right out of my hand, and I just had to get it back pronto.

I started in with a dollar, lost it on craps--sixes, that time--sent another one down the same trail trying to make Little Joe come again, third went on craps, fourth I doubled on nine, lost 'em both on craps--say, I never looked so many aces and sixes in the face in my life! It was sure kay bueno, the luck I had that night.

I got up broke, and had to strike Riley for money to get out of town with." So for a time he managed to avoid facing squarely this new and very important factor which must henceforth have its place in the problem of his life..