The brown eyes met mine. ‘Only what I’ve read in the papers.’

‘Nothing else?’

‘No.’

‘Does he?’

‘No. He wouldn’t touch a thing like that. All right, maybe we are a little tricky with a deck of cards, but that’s as far as we go.’

‘Has he ever been caught?’

Her eyes hardened.

‘Now and then.’

‘Has he a police record?’

‘I guess so. He drew two years in San Francisco. He hasn’t been out more than four months.’