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[In alarm.] You're not—cheating?

Me? Do I look like a cheat? [''Deals the cards again.'']

[Glances nervously over his shoulder.] A thousand.

[Nonchalantly.] Kronen?

Kronen. [He gets a card.] Another one. [Gets another card.] Over again! [''Like an inexperienced gambler who is losing heavily, is very nervous. He plays dazedly, wildly, irrationally. From now on it is apparent that his only thought is to win his money back.'']

That makes twelve hundred you owe.

Double or nothing. [''He gets a card. He is greatly excited.''] Another one. [''Gets another card.''] Another. [Throws down three cards.]