Page 39 - Demo

LEVI
I heard the damnedest story the other day. It was the most
funniest thing I had ever heard.
BASS Dont be greedy. Please share.
Ill take three.
(LEVI tosses in THREE CARDS) LEVI
(SILAS deals LEVI three cards)
LEVI
Story goes... two brothers were being pursued by a lawman in
the Red River Valley near the Texas border. He and his posse set up camp about twenty-eight miles from where the two were thought to be hiding at their mother’s home. I’ll raise you two more.
(LEVI tosses in TWO DOLLARS. BASS sits silent- playing the game - yet observing and listening. RAIN continues to pour as the wind picks up)
LEVI
After making sure the area was secure, the lawman made a plan
and disguised himself as a tramp, hiding his handcuffs, pistol, and badge, under his clothes. Then walked... TWENTY- EIGHT MILES to the house wearing an old pair of shoes, dirty clothes, carrying a cane, and wearing a hat with three bullet holes in it.
BASS
I'm gonna match that two and raise you another two.
(BASS tosses in FOUR DOLLARS then stares at LEVI)
LEVI
Asked the woman who lived there if he could rest his tired
beat up feet because a posse was hot on his trail. Asked her for something small to eat and some water to drink. While they were at the table the woman began to tell him of her two outlaw sons. How bad they were - and the three of them should start their own gang. The man said he will think on it because he needed time to sleep.
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