American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-08-04

| "F0eS pOure. fare Ce qH'u UouS plaira," she
responded graciously, as she placed the pack Of
silver edged cards under the lid of the box
QueE dommagc! Monsieur has lostn she add
cd with smile. And with the wand she swept
the five guincas towards the pile Of Napoleons
Frank bit his lips with vexaton. At one
stroke he had lost one hundred and twenty-five
! francs?
"This will not enrich us, Winter" said Ell
lis, who had been watching the game with deep
/ interest, and whose disappointment was visible
upon his features. 1t was madness to risk any
thing here. None but mailman would play
at this internal green table She is sorceress
| am convinced! If the devil isn't in her body
looking out of her handsome eyes, then don't
know him Come, let the five guneas 90 and
let us try the roulette tablet There is an Eng
Iishman there winning at every turn of the
wheel. See he has Just won on doublc-O,
black! thirty-two times his stake!'
81 am not to be inundated by the loss of
one stake, " said Frank, 'but guinea of it be-
longed TO my capital! feel presentiment that
] shall yet come offs heavy winner"
"Well, you can do as you pease!" said Ellis,
moodlly.
81 presume can, sir" answered he, haugh-
tily.
81 shall try my twenty-five francs at rou-
lette, > said Ellis, without showing any resent
ment at the mode in which his friend had replied
to him. And leaving the table OF the sorcer-
css, he approached the roulette table and placed
franc upon the red color. He lost, He then
tried the black with five franc piece
'Sngle-O red!' drawed out the banker, as
he drew his five franc piece to add it to pile
of silver at his right hand.
Ellis again tried the black with modest
franc and Ihripn in ho
and then seven times in succeaaon lost, until
he had but single five franc piece remaining
With this he resolved to return to the green ia
BILE and desperately venture it there Frank
was still playing, and TO his surprise he saw be-
fore him pile OF silver and gold amounting to
no less than thousand francs The counten-
ance of the winner was flushed, and he was SO
absorbed in the game that he paid no attention
to the exclamation of surprise and ioy with
which Ellis greeted his success. The latter
I glanced at tho stake he had just laid down and
saw that it Was ten Napoleons.
".HonSieur, uouS eteS biea n,echGnt1" said the
bankress with smile, as she counted out ten
Napoleons from the heap before her, and shov-
ed them, with an air of inmitable grace, to-
wards him. "You win, Monsieur. You see
am not SO dangerous as you imagine" And
her eyes sought his i'll vain to draw q returning
glance. She saw the American was less sus-
ceptbe than the hundreds of young French
men who had sacrificed themselves to her
shrine.
"What!-fifty guiness3 Mcnsieuris becom-
ing bold she said, as Winter placed this stake
upon the board.
The cards flew from her fingers, and the
seventh time in succession the bankress was
loser, the player winner
ttTsIa Of nj l. 1
laughing, as she showed the fifty guineas she had
lost over to his side ofthe table.
Winter made no reply. He swept with his
hand the whole one hundred together and laid
it upon asingle card.
''For Heavens sake, Frank" cried Ellis,
edo not risk so large stake. 1t is five hun
dred dollars"
Leave ME to manage my oWn play, SIR"
rgaid Frank sternly, without looking up.
Ellis bit his lip, and remained silent spec
ftator. He observed closely the features of the
bankress, to see if he could discover any ankle
ty as to the result. 1t was collected, and half
smile rested upon the beautiful mouth. Ifshe
felt any chagrin she did not manifest it,
"Monsieur is winner! Quellc homie que celia
est uillain" she said sweeping towards him
hundred guineas. For the eleventh time he
was winner!
/ "Cela est bien NAL rouS, .MOnsieur!" she said
with a short forced laugh, and a graver look
than she had shown
-"Now, Winter, in the name of all that is
coed, stop!" said Ellis, laying his hand upon
his arm. "You have won FIVE thousand dol
lars clear! This will pay your expenses to Paris
and London and home. Don't play again. 1t
is impossible luck should keep to your side
twelve times in succession!''
81 shall ventura this once If uu;p 7 will
stop--if lose, shall have to. .MaGemoiseiLe,
e'est le douzieme Jois.'
III warn you" said Ellis, deeply moved.
Silence, sir! l am not dependent on your
"You forget, Winter, that if lam dependent
on you for money, am at least gentleman, ;"
said Ellis darky
"You should then let me do as please, an
swered Winter, in sort of apologize tone
81 dislike to be interrupted. Nlademoisee,
this is the twelfth time am your winner.''
"C'est Obominable! Ten Suis tuyieur!'' she
said, with an effort to laugh gracefully; but FL
lis, who had been a little modified by Winters
words, closely regarding her, saw that her dark
eyes were full of an angry light.
81 stake the one Thousand guineas." he said,
in calm voice, as he laid one Of them, to rep
resent the whole, upon enc of the ards arrang-
ed upon the table. The bankress dealt with
less rapid hand. She closely regarded each
card as it appeared upon the surface, and ex-
amined it, ere it was thrown off! Ellis looked
on with the most eager feelings. Winter re-
garded the dealing with outward calmness; but
the expression of his restless eye betrayed his
inward anxiety as to the result. His gaze
seemed spell bound upon the little gold cover
as it one after the another exposed the faces of
the cards she turned up. The rumor that a
young foreigner was winning with a wonder
full series of successes from the enchantress,
drew to her board all who were not engaged
in play, and two or three banks were not oc-
cuped.
"Monsieur is winner" said the bankress with
cold smile and pale cheek; and instead of