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What You See May Not
Be What You See
Ellyn picked up her small daughter and headed out to work. She
locked the apartment door, walked down several flights of stairs, and
got out onto the street. The bus dropped her and her daughter off at
the brightly lit main square where the evening crowds of tourists and
vacationers walked and talked. Her night job depended on these people,
and she was looking forward to a good night.
A crowd had formed at the corner of Main and First, blocking her
way. Winding through the crowd she saw that a game of three-card
monte was in progress. Tourists are warned to avoid this swindle, but
there is always someone in the crowd who is sucked in. The game
works like this: the dealer has three cards faceup on a small table;
one is a king, queen, or jack, and the other two are number cards. He
(or sometimes she) flips them over, facedown, moves them around
quickly on the tabletop and then stops. The dealer, using a nonstop