As expected, the card game is also quite awkward due to the Swede’s paranoid behavior and comments. Meanwhile, the cowboy often hits the board when he has a good hand. The Swede shocks his companions when he says he believes many men have been killed in that room. The cowboy, the Easterner, and Johnnie are all astonished, and none of them claims to know what he means. The Swede takes this to indicate that they are closing ranks against him.