JIMVILLE 



ground as you can shoot over, in as many 

 pretensions as you can make good. 



That probably explains Mr. Fanshawe, 

 the gentlemanly faro dealer of those parts, 

 built for the role of Oakhurst, going white- 

 shirted and frock-coated in a community 

 of overalls ; and persuading you that what- 

 ever shifts and tricks of the game were 

 laid to his deal, he could not practice them 

 on a person of your penetration. But he 

 does. By his own account and the evi- 

 dence of his manners he had been bred 

 for a clergyman, and he certainly has gifts 

 for the part. You find him always in pos- 

 session of your point of view, and with 

 an evident though not obtrusive desire to 

 stand well with you. For an account of 

 his killings, for his way with women and 

 the way of women with him, I refer you 

 to Brown of Calaveras and some others of 

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