The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued

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diletantes, as the pins were heavier, which produces lower scores than the lighter ones at Bayway Town Lanes uptown.

There was a licensed twenty-four hour bar at the center, with a private room which was used for card games at the center of that. This bar, being the only one for five blocks, may have been Nigel’s biggest single reason to buy the place. Lefty arranged games for the town’s biggest players as well as unknown out-of-towners, as having some scratch is the only credential necessary to play the game. The house almost always came out ahead, even if they weren’t always the evening’s biggest winner.

There was picture on the wall, that of a doll-faced dame or a vamp. Lefty put it there thinking that it can’t hurt to try to distract the saps. On the opposite wall was a sign which said; “Ignore the unwritten rules at your own peril.” Perhaps it is because no dinges were ever participants, this required no further explanation to the gentlemen players.