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They give me a great big room at the hotel in Pittsburgh; so the fellers picked it out for the poker game. We was playin' along about ten o'clock one night when in come Elliott -- the earliest he'd showed up since we'd been roomin' together. They was only five of us playin' and Tom ast him to sit in.
"I'm busted," he says.