By Louis L'Amour
WesternLarge Print EditionVal Durrant was once only a baby whilst he begun his schooling along with a gambler named Will Reilly. From Colorado boomtowns to seedy Texas saloons to the streets of Europe and again, it used to be a faculty of playing cards, poetry, violence, honor, and success. yet outdoors a posh Colorado lodge, Reillys good fortune ran out in a blazing roar of gunfire. Val must heed each lesson the gambler ever taught him if hes to usher in the ruthless gunmen who introduced Will Reilly down.
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Then they were under the trees, in a thick stand of timber. Reilly came back to Val. "You'll have to sit tight. If you see me go on ahead, you stay right in the seat. " Reilly moved back and forth across the road, trampling down the snow where it was too deep, then leading the horses on. Suddenly a black bulk of rock showed before them, and close to it a slanting roof and a doorway. Surprisingly, a thin trail of smoke rose from the chimney. Will Reilly stared at it, then with numbed fingers he unbuttoned his coat.
He had had his bad times and his good, but he knew cards and he knew men, and he won much more often than he lost. His father had been killed in a boiler explosion in Pennsylvania when Will was fourteen, and for the next six years he had worked as a common laborer, moving from job to job until he discovered he could do better playing poker. He had begun it on the jobs where he worked, moved from them to the river ports, and finally to the cities, and on to the Isthmus of Panama, South America, and then California and the mining camps.
Keep the boy until morning, will you? " "What do you think I am, a nurse? " Then more quietly he added, "She's a fool. " Van put Val down on the bed and helped him undress; then he covered him up. The warmth of the room after the cold Montana night made him very sleepy. It seemed as if he had been cold as long as he could remember. There was a moment or two of subdued talking, then the door closed and Val heard the sound of footsteps going away. Val opened his eyes and peeked at Will Reilly as the gambler combed his black hair, and buckled on his gun belt and holster.