"What's your scheme, Johnny ?" And he looked up, quite indifferent to the card he was tossing away.

He picked up the one Close carefully dealt him and, without looking at it, slid it in among the other four.
"I'm ready to close with you for that Bronx subdivision," responded Johnny, acutely watching Colonel Bouncer as that gentleman asked for one card, received it and studied its countenance with polite admiration.

"It's the proposition I've previously explained to all of you, but had to lay aside because I couldn't nail down the property." "I suppose you have it now," observed Morton, pushing forward with gentle little shoves of his middle finger a very tall stack of chips arranged in three distinct and equal red, white and blue layers.

He had not yet looked at his fifth card, and at Colonel Bouncer he directed but a brief and passing glance.

Did he care what the colonel held?
"I have the Wobbles estate in my pocket," replied Johnny, still watching the colonel absorbedly.