CHAPTER 16OUTSIDE THE SKIN of Air Force One, the Arctic night swept past at 1,000 miles per hour. (Hansen had glanced through the port at the configuration of the stars, and figured their course at north-northwest. They were not headed for Madagascar.) As Hansen discarded a surplus king to draw to an inside straight, Air Chief Lafayette (pronounced Lay-fayit) Talliaferro (pronounced Tolliver) slithered the cards around the table with a sidewise riffle and tossed Hansen a four of hearts. Hansen folded, and Army Chief Telmore Ware picked up the pot with three queens.
General Ware was the only non-Southemer in the game, but he played poker like a Southerner, raising on his come card, and Hansen liked the man. Because the others kept shouldering him aside, Hansen tried to include Ware in the
