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"I cannot describe my feelings, right off the bat," said Eddie Rickenbacker, the ace of American aces, the day following the signing of the armistice. "But I can say I feel ninety-nine per cent better. There is a chance of living now and the gang is glad." Rickenbacker became a captain during the last phase of the war and has twenty-four victories over enemy airmen to his credit.
I cannot explain to you, nor can you understand, unless you too are a horseman, the exhilarating feeling of well-being which pervaded me from the moment that I commenced riding Ace. I was a new man, imbued with a sense of superiority that led me to feel that I could go forth and conquer all Caspak single-handed.
Trent dealt them out, looked at his own hand, and, keeping a pair of queens, took three more cards. He failed to improve, and threw them upon the floor. With frantic eagerness Monty grovelled down to see them then with a shriek of triumph he threw down a pair of aces. "Mine!" he said. "I kept an ace and drew another. Give me the brandy!"
"Got another one, a flamer, just back of Chateau-Thierry. That boy is some flyer! He's an ace already." McGee's delight was genuine. "That's great! Never can tell, can you? I didn't think much of his work." He hesitated, wanting to inquire about the others but held back by that statement of Larkin's to the effect that casualties were above forty per cent.
"'Where a gent, says Peets, elab'ratin' this yere theery of not drinkin' none, 'has been crookin' his elbow constant, an' then goes wrong, bodily, it's a great play to stop his nose-paint abrupt. It's a shock to him, same as a extra ace in a poker deck; an' when a gent' is ill, shocks is what he needs.
"Permit me this next is ours, Miss Grant," he said, hastening eagerly forward to her, and I saw it was Quinet. I marked the deference which every one, old and young, paid to her, and at the house afterwards I looked on while a boisterous knot were teaching her euchre. "Change your ace," whispered Annie Lockhart, that pretty gambler.
Sally, I always said you were an ace." "I never heard you. You oughtn't to mumble so." "Will you lend me twenty thousand dollars?" Sally patted his hand soothingly. "Come slowly down to earth," she said. "Two hundred was the sum I had in mind." "I want twenty thousand." "You'd better rob a bank. Any policeman will direct you to a good bank." "I'll tell you why I want twenty thousand."
The other two players dropped out, leaving only Bandy to contest the pot with Dud. "Once more," retorted the bow-legged puncher, shoving in chips. "And again." "Hmp! Claim an ace in the hole, do you? Well, I'll jes' give it one more li'l' kick." Hollister had showing a deuce of hearts, a trey of clubs, an ace of spades, and a four of hearts. He might have a five in the hole or an ace.
"Yes, wake him up!" shouted Rimrock boastfully. "Tell him Rimrock Jones is here." "Aw, pull out, you sucker!" blared L. W. in his ear, but Rimrock only shoved out his bets. "Ten on the ace," droned the anxious dealer, "the jack is coppered. All down?" He held up his hand and as the betting ceased he slowly pushed out the two cards. "Tray loses, ace wins!" he announced and Rimrock won again.
"Sure, I know, Mawruss," Abe declared, as he revealed the nub of the whole matter; "and supposing my Rosie don't play poker, which, Gott sei dank, she couldn't tell a king from an ace, what is that Mrs. Koblin's business? She ain't supposed to know that, Mawruss, and yet she didn't invite my Rosie to her poker party. Rosie wouldn't of gone anyhow, Mawruss; but that ain't the point.
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