“Well, I am confident that there is something peculiar about his playing, and I’m not the only one who is confident. He wins right along.”
“Never loses?”
“Never more than a few dollars, while he frequently wins several hundred at a sitting.”
“It seems to me that catching a dishonest poker player should not be such a difficult thing out in this country.”
“We’ve had some of our cleverest card men watching him, and all have given it up. They say he may be crooked, but they can’t detect how he works the trick.”
“You stated, I believe, that he never plays in the daytime.”
“Never.”
“Have you noted any other peculiar thing about his playing?”
“No, nothing unless—unless——”
“Unless what?”