![]() ![]() ![]() Now recuperated, John openly pursues a romance with Helen and, as an endorsement of the reform movement, refuses to defend his honor in a duel with Sonoma. After Luck convinces her that John loves her, however, Helen joins Woods in a prayer for the gambler's recovery. ![]() Stunned by John's harsh words, Helen accepts Woods's marriage proposal and prepares to leave town with him, unaware that John's gunshot wound is serious. When John finds Helen and Sonoma fighting over Luck, he screams at Helen to leave town, then during a confrontation with the outlaw, John is shot. While Woods argues with John in his office, Luck, who has slipped away from Helen's house, plays poker in the saloon with Sonoma. Soon after, Indian Jim, one of Sonoma's men, is killed in a saloon fight, and to avoid the creation of a vigilante committee and a lynch mob, Woods offers to warn John about controlling his lawless patrons. Then he forces brutish outlaw Sonoma and other gamblers in town to contribute to Woods's church fund as a way of quelling the town's reform movement. Concerned for her future, John sends Luck, a tomboy cardsharp, to live with Helen and attend school. Eight years later, Poker Flat, now a boom town, is invaded by the reform-minded Reverend Sam Woods and schoolteacher Helen Colby. Because he believes that the orphan will bring him luck, John agrees to keep the girl, whom he names Luck, and raise her with his partner, the Duchess. In 1850, during the California gold rush, physician-turned-gambler John Oakhurst delivers a baby girl but cannot save her barmaid mother. ![]()
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