11/30 Any game that come along, I played 'er down to the last chip. Twenty years ago--yes, er ten!--Casey Ryan woulda tore that L.A.jail down rock by rock an' give the roof t' the kids to make a playhouse. Them L.A.cops never woulda hauled me t' jail in no wagon. That there woulda been Casey Ryan's gait a few years back. Take me now, married to a good woman an' gettin' gray--" Casey sighed, gazing wishfully back at the Casey Ryan he had been and might never be again. |