The Silver Queen

By Gadfly on Dec 12, 2015

At the Carleton, Paladin finishes playing poker with some associates at 5 am. He returns to the room and confirms that the last remaining player, Leadhead Kane, was bluffing. The elderly Leadhead asks for a cigar despite his doctor’s orders, and figures that he’s done since he found a silver mine. He plans to go over to the music hall and see Mlle. Annette Vargas, the singer. Leadhead shows Paladin a playbill of her, but figures that Annette wouldn’t have stopped to look at someone like him even…