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Bill asked for twenty-five dollars . Sykes offered him two , and Bill with some indignation accepted five . He spent all of this in trying to find Sinclair , and on the strength of his story to the boys borrowed five dollars more to prosecute the search . At ten o'clock that night he ran into Sinclair playing cards in the big room above the Three Horses . The Three Horses still rears its hospitable two-story front in Fort Street , the only one of the Medicine Bend gambling houses that goes back to the days of ' 67 ; and it is the boast of its owners that since the key was thrown away , thirty-nine years ago , its doors have never been closed , night or day , except once for two hours during the funeral of Dave Hawk . Bill Dancing drew Sinclair from his game and told him of the talk with McCloud , touching it up with natural enthusiasm . The bridgeman took the news in high good humor and slapped Dancing on the back .