All the newspapers understood that the police lied; but the editors were either afraid or indifferent; and the farce was played over yearly for the benefit of the ministerial association.
The place was run honestly enough.

When the stakes are small, the professional gambler does not have to be dishonest.

All the same, this kind of gambler is the most despicable of men.

He lures the wage of the poor; clerks, bookkeepers, traveling salesmen, laborers, college boys, men who drink too much of a Saturday night, all these come to the net.

Nobody ever wins anything; and if perchance one does make a small winning, it goes quickly over the bar.