Her long lashes twitched and her face looked unnaturally white. She was at the middle table, exactly opposite the wheel. There was a disordered pile of money and chips in front sexy graphics of her. It looked like sexy graphics a lot of money. She spoke to the sexy graphics sexy graphics croupier with a cool, insolent, ill-tempered drawl.
"What kind of a cheap outfit is this, I'd like to know. Get busy and spin that wheel, highpockets. I sexy graphics want one more play and I'm playing table stakes. You take it away fast enough I've noticed, but when sexy graphics it comes to dishing it out you start to whine."
The croupier smiled a cold polite smile that had looked at thousands of boors and millions of fools. His tall dark disinterested manner was flawless. He said gravely: "The table cannot cover your
bet, madam. You have over sixteen thousand dollars there."
&sexy graphics quot;It's your money," the girl jeered. "sexy graphics Don't you want it back?"
A man beside her sexy graphics tried to tell her something. She
turned swiftly and spat something at him and he faded back into the crowd red-faced. A door opened sexy graphics in the paneling at the far end of the enclosed place made by the bronze railing. Eddie Mars came through the door with a sexy graphics set indifferent smile on his face, his hands thrust into the pockets of sexy graphics his dinner jacket, both thumbnails glistening outside. He seemed to like that pose. He strolled behind the croupiers and stopped at the corner of the middle table. He spoke with lazy calm, less politely than the croupier.
"Something the matter, Mrs. Regan?&sexy graphics quot;
She sexy graphics turned her face to him with a sort of lunge. I saw the curve of her cheek stiffen, as if with an almost unbearable inner tautness. She didn't answer him.
Eddie Mars said gravely: "If you're not playing any more, you must let
me send someone home with sexy graphics you."
The girl flushed. Her cheekbones stood out white in her face. Then she laughed off-key. She said bitterly:
"sexy graphics One more play, Eddie. Everything I sexy graphics have on the red. I sexy graphics like red. It's the color of blood."
Eddie Mars smiled faintly, then nodded and reached into his inner breast pocket. He drew out a large pinseal sexy graphics wallet with gold corners and tossed sexy graphics it carelessly along the table to the croupier. "Cover her bet in even thousands," he said, "if no one objects to this turn of the wheel being just for the lady."
No one objected, Vivian Regan leaned down