In reality, I was by no means like him, and he's dead now." "Likenesses are curious things, and it's stranger still how folks alter," said Dane.

"Now, they've a photograph at Barrington's of you as a boy, and while there is a resemblance in the face, nobody with any discernment would have fancied that lad would grow into a man like you.
Still, that's of no great moment, and I want to know just how you spotted the gambler.

I had a tolerably expensive tuition in most games of chance in my callow days, and haven't forgotten completely what I was taught then, but though I watched the game, I saw nothing that led me to suspect crooked play." Winston laughed.

"I watched his face, and what I saw there decided me to try a bluff, but it was not until he turned the table over I knew I was right." "Well," said Dane dryly, "you don't need your nerves toned up.

With only a suspicion to go upon, it was a tolerably risky game.