Orders is Orders (2009)
Orders is Orders
“His green cap was on the back of his head and the sweat of exertion bedewed his brow. A cigarette, cocked skyward in a futile attempt to keep the smoke out of his eyes, placed a perfect screen across his vision. But the smoke was not thick enough to obscure the fact that the sergeant across the blanket was turning up a queen and an ace.
Mitchell paid off and passed the deal. He clinked two Mex twenty-cent pieces forlornly together, put them out, got thirteen, drew a king on his hit, and the...refore, busted in more ways than one, withdrew from the blanket on the hatch.
He stood up stiffly and flexed his arms. He yawned elaborately to show that he didn’t care, cocked his cap over his right eye so precariously that it was in danger of falling and walked toward a porthole.
He stared out at the brass-framed view of the dark Japanese men-o’-war and the hurrying launches and the smoldering city and leaned his elbow against a steam pipe to contemplate it.MoreLess
Mitchell paid off and passed the deal. He clinked two Mex twenty-cent pieces forlornly together, put them out, got thirteen, drew a king on his hit, and the...refore, busted in more ways than one, withdrew from the blanket on the hatch.
He stood up stiffly and flexed his arms. He yawned elaborately to show that he didn’t care, cocked his cap over his right eye so precariously that it was in danger of falling and walked toward a porthole.
He stared out at the brass-framed view of the dark Japanese men-o’-war and the hurrying launches and the smoldering city and leaned his elbow against a steam pipe to contemplate it.MoreLess
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