Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-10-13

Major Sprntt was an inveterate gamester.
Ii jounait gros jeu The highest stakes were
powerlcss TO make him finch There were,
as | have limited, public gaming tables at AK
la Chapele in those days, and the major
looked in for two or three hours every alter
noon at Kursaal As rule, although care
less player, he won largely; one night he
carried away 5000 Napoeons; on another he
broke the bank which was limited to 5000
But it was observed he never approached the
roulette table, addicting himself always to the
rouge ct noir or trente Ct quarante--a game
which. as Won should know is PLAYED with
cards, and in no way depends upon the treach-
erUus eyolutons of an ivory ball.
| Alter ALL these attendanceS at the Kursaal
were only paur sc destralre 1t was in pri-
waite that Major SprOtt made his largest gains.
At lansque net, at piquet, at ecarte, at whist,
at wing ct-un, he was unconquerable. He al
ways won, and that, too by seeming the most
Indifferent play. At loo he is said to have
amassed enormous sums. 1t was impossible
to bring against him the slightest accusation
of foul play: but at last the grand ddkes and
ambassadors whose pockets lie empted be-
gan to look with some uneasiness upon the
terrible American. He didn't play on a svs-
| TEN: he scarcely looked at his cards: and vet
| he always won.
There was at this time at Aka dasbing adj
venturer. of Irish extraction. whose real name
is believed to have been O'Kellev. but who
| called himself the Roron do KolIi He had
been mixed up in the mysterious and desrep
utabe intrigue by means of winch the British
government endeavored. but unsnc.essfnllv.
to release Ferdinand of Spain 1.-THE Virgins
| petticoat embroiderer) from the clutches of
| Napoleon at Bayonne. The Baron de Kohl
had come to AK on the chance of something
turning mn in the gav of adventure ar of
swndling, and lived from hand to mouth like
| a hinh ulctlJpd panester ns hewos. Hecould
not obtain admission 10 the partrician society
| in which Major Sprott was n weIconte quesi.
but the K,,rsaal was omen to evervhodv who
had a decent coat ON his back. and TO the
KursaaI, and to the trente ct onarante table
til. Baron deKoIIi came afternoon after AFTER
noon. PLAYING little when the odds were ia.
forable, bar oeenpvinq himself much more
with watching fhp qanie of the man with the
! tortnisn.sI,nli SUCCEEDED
# chance one ,l,v that ss Major S,rott
was bending a,ross tbe green hair ~ st,ks a
handful ot N,,.,t,ons az, tL,, ,,ro ,,,,., az tho
str,uys which bnsiI., tho tort,iso SILL am
6nnd tha s,,n,a"las =, IL ,o,5 l,o,,ioI,,,
ned md tLosa ,,,,,,a,,i"as sii3 ~F ~ 80
and fell an tho fnar He stonnad ra,,iJ,y IN
nick them nm. hnr the Raron do KplI had
been brf,,ehand win lin, He had ,,loIoJ
| the heel Of nts of his IInSsian boots az, tina
glasses. and drnnchaa then, into a bnndraI
fragmentS
Major Snr,tt fha had won tho s,oLa hv tho
wnv1 lnnkino extremaly d,sroncnrIcd and
turned towards the Iri,hn,an. as il far An
apolnpy. bnt th,. later ,.,,nIIy yh;snar.,J--
~ al If an burmese YoH nov, XII, nm rho
nieces and NM them IN vour n1c,o, 4 vo,,
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t III 800
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could H., ~, ,l,,od IL, I'm 80 ,I Nv
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N,nllonns lila tas,or ha s,,',,,tJ Ia ,'n,
naIiod r., ,.',,., ant his ,rn,,;sn A. ,I,a and
nfLoIfan hmm Mainr SSnrn,t had I,st oinht
hrn,,r,J N,,,'i,ors' 'p''
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snail. and ,ehnn they had raaaI,ad aa,Ii'Ind
monk tha Amnrican said "