... my life at Cannes was as blameless as dammit.

A good name―what is called prestige―meant much in the Native world. They seemed to have made up, at some time, a joint appraisement of you, against which no one would afterwards go.

Some calicoes do not wash.

New Orleans gamblers are said to use the bones (also called coon dogs and Texas toothpicks) for luck.