—Certainly are too gummy, these cards, and besides that, I'll bet Billy Dodd here, as soon as he got through soaking me with the most gosh-awful assortment of office supplies you ever saw—I'll bet he sneaked up here in the hotel and marked the whole darn' pack. Just what you'd expect a Chicago guy to do! So we'll get a fresh pack and go on with our scientific investigation into poker and—
But say, speaking about coming to Chicago, I certainly did have one rotten ole trip from Zenith, last night. Now here's a funny thing about me: the first night on a sleeper, I can't hardly sleep at all.
And yet the time that Mrs. Schmaltz and I went 'way clear out to California last year, great big long trip like that, while I couldn't sleep very good the first night—just kept turning over and
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