'They are used, I am told, to trap players--not unbirched schoolboys.' 'Yet I say that they are marked!' he replied hotly, in his queer foreign jargon.

'In my last hand I had nothing.

You doubled the stakes.

Bah, sir, you knew! You have swindled me!' 'Monsieur is easy to swindle--when he plays with a mirror behind him,' I answered tartly.
At that there was a great roar of laughter, which might have been heard in the street, and which brought to the table everyone in the eating-house whom his voice had not already attracted.

But I did not relax my face.