The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-11-07

sac PLAYED THE RED TO VIII
4 Strange Story Of How q Young
Girl Won a Fortune at
Gambling Table.
The "LOuHger OF the Washing
ton Sunday Herald relates the fol
lowing story: There is a trite bu,
true saying that Truth is stranger
than felton, In all the range of r.
nance I never read more wonderful
story than that l shall try to tell a. il
was told me b. Que of. the creates,
singers the world has aver known.
-Four years ago. said the lady relat.
ing the story. there was q young
American girl in an italian city
who was studying music. She came
rom u quiet New England village,
and with her mother located in q
place celebrated for its masters to un-
dergo a complete musical training.
Her master was q thoroughly con-
scientious Italian, whose voice had
broken down just as he became to he
famous "a a tenor, and SO he had to
give up his life long aspirations, and
train others to gather in the golden
fortune that by his art he himself
hoped to win. The girl, who had
been given the sweet old Puritan
name of Faith, studied diligently,
and was in her second years course
when an illness attacked her mother.
The money set aside for Faiths must
cal studies Was well-nigh spent ia the
mothers sickness. What to do the
daughter did not know. They were
without friends, and the future al
without hope. One night before re-
firing the girl knelt by her bedside
and %fervently prayed God to help her.
She arose from her prayer comfOrted,
for in her simple way she believed in
God, and that He always heard the
prayers of his children who prayed
believing in Him. That night she
dreamed a curious dream. She saw
her dead father as he had appeared
in life. He said to ker, believe in
God, He will help YOU" The next
night the dream was repeated. The
third night she dreamed she was at
Monaco; that she had gone into the
great Kursaall where they were play
ing. She sat down at a table and
put a sum of money on the red
squares and let it stay until the
red had won thirteen times. Her
father stood behind her chair as she
sat, and when she finished he put his
hands on her head and gave her his
blessing, and th0n she awoke. The |
dream puzzled her. She had neve
been at MANAGE. She had never
seen the gambling hall, and yet the
whole place appeared so wildly in
her dream! When her teacher came
that day she told him of her dream
and those that had preceded it. He
listened at%tentively. Like all Ital-
ians, he was superstitious. He
thought of it all day. When ne saw
her again he said: why not try it?
God helps us all in his own mysteri-
Gus way That night her father
came again and said, Go! That de-
cided her. She told her mother that
she thought a little rest and recrea-
ton would help her, and said her
teacher and his daughter, who were
taking a little excursion, had asked
her to join them. Might she 60:
The mother thought for a moment.
and could see no harm in it to her
child. She would only be away one
night, and had a tavorite servant to
keep her company during her daugh-
ters absence. The next morning
they the teacher, his daughter and
FAITH took their departure. They
looked about the beautiful garden of
Monaco, as lovely as the garden of
Eden before the fall. At the three
entered the great Kursaal. It was
just as the girl had seen it all in her
dream. The place was full Of we'll
dressed people, ladies and gentlemen,
q band was playing beautiful music.
In the corner she recognized the
table she had seen in her dreams,
with a swelling heart and emotions
that cannot be described, she sat
and the italian stood up be-
hind her. During the day she had
what to do.
"She drew from her DOrtemonie
notes, each for n English
pound, and the Italian showed her
to put them on the red spot.
What if it were all a superstittous
folly? What If she was simply vast
Ing in a wicked gambling house the
little money they had between them
and starvation? she dared notthink.
She must do what her father had
hidden her in her dream. 'Ma'am- 5
,elle has won,' she heard the croup;ey 5
,ay. let it stay she replied, What
the limit?!' asked the italian. wv !
have no limit the well-dressed cold !
FLOODED man with the suave voice l
She won again and again. The l
red had come up three times in sue 9
session. She had won ZIG pounds, $
Or $50 of our money. will not the I !
lady take up her money" said the (
:roupier. No. she said, Let it |
/ am going TO play the red to |
win thirteen times He shrugged [
lis shoulders imperceptibly. The +
,ame went IN. At the sixth play her '
winnings were $640. She sat like a \
in a trance. When the red o
lad won for the eighth time she had y y
1850. Oh, what should she do? Be- q
ore her there was q small fortune. II
ought she not take it and 60? BY q
his time q crowd had gathered. o
Lev was going Oh. A Q
with a face like the dead had G.
ron eight times in succession Oh the ="
ed. A few I'D gamblers began to II
ack the red to lose. 1t was impos- p"
IDLE that the red should Dome up II
gain. The game continued. Meth "
az was heard but the click of the al
rory and the voice of the croupiey o. J"
The red wins again. At L
tenth play she had $1O,24O. Her
was uncomfortable. Here r,
her was more money than she
I'd eve seen mall her life before. 1t
hers. Should she take it and 90:
TO- she managed to whisper, L will
1t all. lose OF win, till / have w
aged the red thirteen times!' The tr
d came up again at the eleventh f.
az. She had $50, $50 For a mo oy
ent she hesitated. She would take tn
DDS gift-for it was His, she said In
I'd 60. Something said to her PLAY to
70 thirteen times She did. At the 7