“What's the ante?” he asked.
“Oh, five hundred?” McNally replied.
Blaney pushed the cards back.
“No,” he said, “not enough.”
Williams seconded his chief with a shake of the head.
“Well, name it yourself.”
“A thousand.”
McNally pursed his lips, then drew out a wallet, and counted out three thousand dollars in large bills, which he laid in the centre of the table.
“There's four playing,” suggested Blaney.
McNally scowled.