Possible Clues:

• It's not so odd that in the ship there should be at least fourteen such
• There's numbers of them, even among the saints.
• Even in the ship there could be at least fourteen of them
• 77
• Slot machine winners
• Another name for fan-tan
• It's not so odd to get so many among the saints
• There's nothing odd having so many in the ship
• How odd that it's not so odd in the ship
• Such numbers are no so odd in the ship