Don’t you have a straight deck around here? Well say, here we go, I brought along my own deck, just in case, has something in it other than face cards—and check the pictures, huh? Ever one different. Fifty-two positions.” Cheswick is pop-eyed already, and what he sees on those cards don’t help his condition. “Easy now, don’t smudge ’em; we got lots of time, lots of games ahead of us. I like to use my deck here because it takes at least a week for the other players to get to where they can even see the suit. . . .”

