The Crack Of Doom
February, 1956
"No," Said Mason Bridges, "I don't play poker." There was something about the manner in which he said it that made his friend Tom Ackley look sharply at him. They had been in college together, had been friends for more than fifteen years, and this was the first time Ackley had ever heard just that note in Bridges' voice. He had never thought of Bridges as fanatically puritanical -- indeed, now that he remembered it, hadn't Bridges been one of the very eagerest of the devotees...
