Gentleman Joe's Leadville Lead — page 30: what you’re looking at

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She realized full well what it was for a young man to come to such a place as Leadville with such a large sum of money in his possession or in his care. She had heard just a rumor that Kid-Glove Kit had come to Leadville with quite a large capital to invest. Keeping a gambling resort as she did—for she had epened a faro-bank here—she was sure to hear whatever talk there might be of such matters as these. Therefore she had heard Kid-Glove Kit mentioned sey- eral times. When she had met him a few minutes before, as she was approaching his dwelling, she had not known that it was he. . Yet she bad felt by a sort of intuition that he was some one in whom she could feel an interest if she only knew more about him. Indeed, there was something in his face which was of itself impressive. Foxy Fan liked money, but she did not like it quite so well as she had done earlier in life. It might be that a strong reason for her continuing as a professional gambler was because she liked the excitement of the play. There was an excitement in the exercise of her own skill, a zest in the chance involved, an enjoyment of the excitement of others, which was contagious. And really she had been in that life so long that she was, hardly herself apart from if. Yet she no longer acted wholly without principle. Many a young man had she warned to leave her board. Many a stake had she refused to play against, well know- ing that she must win, and that the loser would be ruined by her success. Therefore she felt that even while she continued in a profession which at the East would be considered fairly eriminal, she was here doing a sort of mission work. In other words, her resort was less dangerous than others—that those who entered it were taking an upward rather than a downward step. It might be that Foxy Fan was as sharp as her name im- plied. But when it came to classing her with an old money 4 wae . ae 4 P<