'I'm after you; an' I comes a-runnin',' he says.
"Down goes his money all over the lay-out; only now its five hundred instead of one hundred.
"It's no avail, this Holliday still loses.

At the end of a hour Nell sizes up her roll; she's a leetle over forty thousand strong; jest where Cherokee stands at the start.
"Nell pauses as she's about to put the deck in the box for a deal.
She looks at this Holliday a heap thoughtful.

That look excites Dan Boggs who's been on the brink of fits since ever the play begins, he's that 'motional.
"'Don't raise the limit, Nell!' says Dan in a awful whisper.

'That's where Cherokee's weak at the go-off.

He ought never to have thrown away the limit.' "Nell casts her eyes--they're burnin' like coals!--on Dan.