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AS HE and Lal Vak followed the page into Thoor Movil's large and luxurious apartments, Jerry saw that the party was a small and select one, consisting of about twenty men. Three of them, Shiev Zovil, Manith Zovil, and Thoor Movil, wore the blue of royalty. The others, with the exception of the Earthman, wore the orange of nobility.
Four gaming boards set on a large swinging table served the gapun players. These boards contained numbered holes, and the game consisted of rolling Martian money--small engraved pellets of gold silver, and platinum--into the holes, the first pellet into the highest numbered hole winning the entire stake from each roll.