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"Least of all to me. But that makes no odds. As I said, you've got to take a fall. Barnriff's got ears and eyes that puts it wise to a lot. It's wise to how things have been going with you and Eve. It's wise to the fact you're bumming your living out of her, that you're a drunken, poker-playing loafer, and that you're doing it on her earnings.
Her nose hauled up on the quarter of the 323; up to her beam; up to her bridge. As he passed the 323 and he passed quite close to let all hands view the passing the poker-playing friend leaned out and megaphoned across: "What you making, Chiz?" "Twenty knots!" hailed back Chisholm. "I am seeing your twenty knots and raising you five!" returned the other, and passed on.
And now comes along a miserable lawyer who finds something the matter with the will, and everything goes to that worthless Charlie Winthrop, who'll probably blow it all in on one grand poker-playing spree. It makes me tired!
Ellwell had never been there before. Jarvis Thornton had seen him from time to time at the A. Ô.; but a fast set, the Roper-Ellwell crowd, having made the club over into a drinking and poker-playing establishment, he had ceased to go there frequently. Ellwell was considerably battered, Thornton noticed, as he invited him, coolly, to take a seat and help himself to a cigar.
Who was handling the cameras?" "Mr. Bell," said Babs briskly. "It's his hobby, along with poker-playing and children." "Tell him to get some pictures of the star-fields around us," said Cochrane, "and then you can see what Jones wants. I will do a little business!" He settled down in the seat Babs had vacated. He faced the two press-association reporters in the screen.
If you had any backbone you'd make your wife behave herself. She is more of a belle, sir, right now than before you married her. She is crazy for excitement, and the whole poker-playing, wine-drinking set she goes with is on the road to perdition." Laying his hand on the old man's arm gently, Mostyn led him toward the door. "Don't let it worry you," he said.
It was at ten in the morning that the big one had passed them. It was four in the afternoon, and the 323 was still going along at twenty knots when from out of the drizzle ahead her bridge made out the stern and funnels of a destroyer. It was Chiz's poker-playing chum, and his ship was making heavy weather of it. He beat the big one fifty minutes into the naval base.
Officers and men who have been hunting U-boats for a week or so do not like to linger along the road home; so it was every young captain giving his ship all the steam she could stand and let her belt. It was breaking white water all around when they started. It grew rougher. Chisholm in the 323 was going along at twenty knots when a poker-playing chum came along in his big 1,000-ton destroyer.
Then its purposes gradually limited themselves to those of a social nature, chiefly in the line of poker-playing and whisky-drinking.
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