Play! It is in the cards that I must win." "But if you should lose ?" "I shall not lose!" His insistence, his confidence, almost caused the older man to laugh.

"No, my friend," said he to himself, "you shall not lose!" But what he said aloud was, "You must not be excited, Dunwody.

You may need all your nerve.

I thought you cooler in times of stress." "You don't know me.

I don't know myself.