THE MAN WHO PLAYED TO LOSE By LARRY M. HARRIS - https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/30259/pg30259-images.html

 

Then I offered him a cigarette. He thanked me as if it had been a full set of Crown Jewels.

What difference did it make whether or not he called me "Sir"? I was still God to him, and there wasn't much I could do about it.