did we get! Gosh! we didn't get none! They was six to our five."
"How many cards did you draw, you Piute?" asked Lanky.
"None of yore business; I ain't dealing, an' I would n't tell you if I was," retorted Billy.
"Well, I can ask, can't I?"
"Yes—you can, an' did."
"You did n't get none?" cried Hopalong, doubting his ears.
"I should say not!"
"An' they owned th' whole train?"
"They did."
Red laughed. "Th' cleaning-up must have been sumptuous an' elevating."
"Every time I holds threes he allus has better," growled Lanky to Simms.
"On th' level, we could n't do a thing," the brakeman ran on. "There 's a water tank a little farther on, and they must 'a' climbed aboard there when we stopped to connect. When we got into the gulch the train slowed down and stopped and I started to get up to go out and
