Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-12-20

riuacous with multiple com 0inatiOns,
listening TO the advice OF ruined old
stagers and becoming professional gam
blcrs, trying in fact every imbecile device
and employing every STUPID fetish that
! could class the gambler between the child
who has no reason and the idiot who has
for ever lost ii. And not only did they
risk their money, but they enieebled their
intelligence by imagining absurd com
blnatlOrs: and tuey compromised their
qersOnsl dignity by the familiarity which
| the freQuenting Of the very mixed assem-
bly, imposed upon all. In short at the
clos Of this evening which wuold
hereafter be celebrated in the an
mails Of Monte Carlo. owing TO their OBJ
stinacy in struggling against series Of
| seventeen rouges at trente-et-qusrante,
| they mad left OF with less than 100000
francs between them.
But II they had nearly lost their for
unes, they had not yet lost their senses,
like the gambler who had become sud-
denly deranged while they were talking
on the terrace. and who was running
through the gardens shouting
at turns! IL turns~
The unfortunate man imagined that he
had just put his money on the coming
/ num3er, and that the cylinder in move
ment OF fantastic gyTatiOn was turning,
and doomed TO turn for ages he had
! gone mad for the rest Of his lite.
"Have you become calmer, silas|'
asked Sarcany II bis companion. docs
not that lunatic teach you TO keep cool?
We have not won, it is true, but the luck
will turn, for il must turn, and without
our doing anything to make it. Why try
to better ity 1t is dangerous, and besides
| ii is useless. You cannot change the
| 'Yeine' if il is bad, and you would not
/ change it when it is good. Wait then,
/ and when the luck turns, let US be bold
| aud make our game while the 'veine'
/ lasts.'
Did Toronthal listen to this advice
/ absurd as is all advice connected with
| games Of chance? MOL He was over
whelmed, and be had then but one idea
/ TO escape from this domination of Sarcany
70 get away, and to get away 50 far that
! bis conscience could not reprOach him I.
/ But such a fit Of resolution could not last
/ long in his enervated, helpless nature.
/ Besides, he was watched by his accom-
/ plice. Before he left him TO himself Sar-
| cany wanted him until his marriage had
! taken place with Sara. Then be would
/ get rid ofSilas Toronthal, he would forget
! him, and he would not even remember
! that that feeble individual had ever
/ existed. or that he had ever been as
/ ISOLATED with him in any enterprise what
| everl Until then it was necessary for the
| banker 20 remain under his thumb
"Silas," continued Sarcany, "we have
/ been unfortunate today: chance was
against US. Tomorrow it will be tor
usw
"And If 1 lose the little that is
/ left" answered Toronthal who strug-
/ 2led in vain against these deplorable sug-
| gestions.
"There is still Sara, Toronthalr' an
/ swered Sarcany quickly. "She is an
ace oftrumps, and you cannot overtrump
/ herw
"Yesl Tomorrow tomorrow" said
the banker, who was just in that mental
condition in which a gambler would risk
his head.
The two then entered their hotel,
which was situated halfway down the
road from Monte Carlo 10 La COnda-
mine.
The port Of Monaco lies between Point
Focinana and Fort Antoine, and is an
open bay exposed to the northeast and
southeast winds. II rounds of between
the rock on which stands the capital and
the plateau on which are the hotels and
| villas, at the foot of the superb Mont Agel
whose summit rising to $500 feet towers
boldly ABOVE the picturesque panorama OF
the Lgurian coast. The town has o
/ population of some 1900 Inhabitants, and
! rounded on three Of its ides by the sea. II
lies hidden beneath the neverfading yer.
oure Of palms, pomegranates, sycamOres,
! pear trees, orange trees, citrOn trees
! eucalytuses, and arborescent bushes Of
geraniums, aloes, myrtles, lentisks, and
palma-christies, heaped all over the place
in marvellous confusion.
At the other side of the harbor Monte
Carlo faces the tiny capital with its cur
] nil 10 Of h1Ff m oil
and its zigzags of narrow climbing roads
running up to the Corniche suspending in
mid-mountain its chessbOard of gardens
in perpetual bloom, It's panorama of cot
tages of every shape, its villas OF every
style, of which some seem actually e
hang over the limpid waters OF this Medi
terranean bay.
Between Monaco and Monte Carlo, al
the back OF the harb0r from the beach W
to the throat OF the winding valley which
divides the group of mountains, is a THIRD
city-La COndamine.
Above TO the right rises large noun
tain, whose profile turned towards the
sea has gained IL the name OF the Dogs
Head. On this head there is now a for
which is said TO be impregnable, anC
which has the honor to be French, for il
marks the limit on that side Of the Prin
cipality OF Monaco.
/
vehicles have 10 ascend a superb hill, a.
the upper end OF which are the private
houses and the hotels, in one of which
there were now staying TorOnthal anC
Sarcsny. From the windows of theli
apartment the view extended from La Con
damlne to beyond Monaco and was only
shut in by the Dogs Head, which
seemed 70 be interrOgating the Medi
terranean as the Sphinx does the Lybiar
desert.
ssrcany and Toronthal had retired Il
their rooms. There they examined thu
situation, each from his own point o
view. Had the vicIssitudes Of forum,
broken the community OF interests which
for fifteen years had bound them so close
ly togethery
Sarcany, when he entered, haC
found a letter addressed 10 him. It CAM
from Tetuan, and he hastily tore 1t open
In few lines Namir told him OF two
things that interested him deeply. Thl
first was the death Of Carpena. drowned
in the harbor OF Ceuta under such extra
ordinary circumstances; the second wa
the appearance of DR.. Antekirtt on tn
Moorish coast, the way in which he hat
dealt with the Spaniard, and then his i'm
mediate disappearance.
Having read the letter, Sarcany opened
the window. Leaning on the balcony HI
looked out into TO space and set himsel
20 think.
"Carpena deadY Nothing could be NOR
oppOrtune. Now his secrets ar,