The aces stripped from the ends, the kings from the sides." The group looked eagerly at Constance.
"From the maker of fake gambling apparatus, I find," she explained, shutting off the machine.

"They were ordering from him cards cut or trimmed so that certain ones could be readily drawn from the deck, or 'stripped.' Small wedge-shaped strips are trimmed off the edges of all the other cards, leaving the aces, say, projecting just the most minute fraction of an inch beyond the others.

Everything is done carefully.
The rounded edges at the corners are recut to look right.

When the cards are shuffled the aces protrude a trifle over the edges of the other cards.

It is a simple matter for the dealer to draw or strip out as many aces as he wants, stack them on the bottom of the pack as he shuffles the cards, and draw them from the bottom whenever he wants them.