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Authorities cancelled the false card at that time.

The cases in which false cards can be played with advantage are rare, but sometimes, especially in trumps, success may follow the play of a false card.

It was his indignant repudiation of the charge that had misled me; but Casey’s constant and earnest asseveration—now strengthened by the after circumstances of the false card, and the failure to make an appearance—satisfied me that we had been in the company of a sharper.

“Oh, Jane—Jane, darling! please—please stop, only a minute,” he whined, for he knew that he had played a false card, and that it was time to withdraw it.

She professed her delight at the unexpected pleasure and then boldly played a false card.