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Download or read book RUGGLES of RED GAP a Large Print Book written by Harry Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stiffish lot, those Americans," he said at last."They do so many things one doesn't do," I answered."And their brogue is not what one could call top-hole, is it now? How often they say 'I guess!' I fancy they must say it a score of times in a half-hour.""I fancy they do, sir," I agreed."I fancy that Johnny with the eyebrows will say it even oftener.""I fancy so, sir. I fancy I've counted it well up to that.""I fancy you're quite right. And the chap 'guesses' when he awfully well knows, too. That's the essential rabbit. To-night he said 'I guess I've got you beaten to a pulp,' when I fancy he wasn't guessing at all. I mean to say, I swear he knew it perfectly.""You lost the game of drawing poker?" I asked coldly, though I knew he had carried little to lose."I lost-" he began. I observed he was strangely embarrassed. He strangled over his pipe and began anew: "I said that to play the game soundly you've only to know when to bluff. Studied it out myself, and jolly well right I was, too, as far as I went. But there's further to go in the silly game. I hadn't observed that to play it greatly one must also know when one's opponent is bluffing.""Really, sir?""Oh, really; quite important, I assure you. More important than one would have believed, watching their silly ways. You fancy a chap's bluffing when he's doing nothing of the sort. I'd enormously have liked to know it before we played. Things would have been so awfully different for us"-he broke off curiously, paused, then added-"for you.""Different for me, sir?" His words seemed gruesome. They seemed open to some vaguely sinister interpretation. But I kept myself steady."We live and learn, sir," I said, lightly enough."Some of us learn too late," he replied, increasingly ominous."I take it you failed to win the hundred pounds, sir?""I have the hundred pounds; I won it-by losing."Again he evaded my eye."Played, indeed, sir," said I."You jolly well won't believe that for long."Now as he had the hundred pounds, I couldn't fancy what the deuce and all he meant by such prattle. I was half afraid he might be having me on, as I have known him do now and again when he fancied he could get me. I fearfully wanted to ask questions. Again I saw the dark, absorbed face of the gipsy as he studied my future."Rotten shift, life is," now murmured the Honourable George quite as if he had forgotten me. "If I'd have but put through that Monte Carlo affair I dare say I'd have chucked the whole business-gone to South Africa, perhaps, and set up a mine or a plantation. Shouldn't have come back. Just cut off, and good-bye to this mess. But no capital. Can't do things without capital. Where these American Johnnies have the pull of us. Do anything. Nearly do what they jolly well like to. No sense to money. Stuff that runs blind. Look at the silly beggars that have it-" On he went quite alarmingly with his tirade. Almost as violent he was as an ugly-headed chap I once heard ranting when I went with my brother-in-law to a meeting of the North Brixton Radical Club. Quite like an anarchist he was. Presently he quieted. After a long pull at his pipe he regarded me with an entire change of manner. Well I knew something was coming; coming swift as a rocketing woodcock. Word for word I put down our incredible speeches:"You are going out to America, Ruggles.""Yes, sir; North or South, sir?""North, I fancy; somewhere on the West coast-Ohio, Omaha, one of those Indian places.""Perhaps Indiana or the Yellowstone Valley, sir.""The chap's a sort of millionaire.""The chap, sir?""Eyebrow chap. Money no end-mines, lumber, domestic animals, that sort of thing.""Beg pardon, sir! I'm to go-""Chap's wife taken a great fancy to you. Would have you to do for the funny, sad beggar. So he's won you. Won you in a game of drawing poker. Another man would have done as well, but the creature was keen for you..."

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