"Why shouldn't it be? What the deuce has a fellow got to do but drink and gamble? You have to, to keep your mind off it."Landor sent for a squad of the guard and went to put them out. It was just one of the small emergencies that go to make up the chances of peace. He might or he might not come back alive; the probabilities in favor of the former, to be sure. But the risks are[Pg 186] about equal whether one fights Indians or citizens drunk with liquor and gaming.The White explained carefully that it was not a contract, that it was nothing at all, in fact.Cairness, his hand on the butt of his own pistol, wondered, a little angrily, if Taylor were never going to be roused.And the walls around are bare;