Mohave County miner., 1889-06-08

ct the other. I'm thirsty; ring that bloom
ing bell.n
As the Captain turned to obey the re-
quest, q waiter knocked at the door, and
brought In the receipted bin and the bal
Ancs OF this thousand-franc note.
Here, say. your began the daisy.
"Donpy maw-Here, You try the lingo on
him, Medhurst. Order bottle OF ds ]
can't get my tongue round this language
little bit. .Donay,'" he pursued, rcfiec-
lively; s'tbey used TO call your fys your
donnies, when I was NJ school, 'Maw'
means me- Of course. Donny maw'--
hand me- suppose, when you come to
know IL, there's bit Of resemblance be-
tween French and English after all"
Into the brilliant pathological vista
opened by this suggestion Captain Med
hurst declined to enter.
'Give me cigar he said. land III talk
70 you"
"You can save yourself the trouble, !"
said tho Daisy. doggedly. Look bere'
He drew out his pocket-book again. when
he had thrown over bis ciRar-ease TO his
companion, and fell to counting the notes
IL contained. You've had one of them,
and made 'zm fifty-eight this morning y
He counted them carefully. There you
arel That's twenty-eight to you, and
twenty.nine 70 me. Now, do you see that
bundles That's one thousand one hum
dred and twenty poundsl Do you see itf'
Medhurst looked very hard at II indeed,
and evidently saw IL clearly. Nov, II
you'll hold your jaw. aud do what want
you, that's yoursr'
"Whgt do you wantf"
"I want you to come back to Monty with
me; want you to master the system thor.
oughly, before you go: and want you to
come and see me play II. get wild;
lose my head. l could have had couple
Of hundred thousand the other night In
stead Of this miserable handful, hut felt
in such vein dropped the system, and
dropped pretty tidy handful OF money
with IL, too. believe that II the tables
hadn't closed, they could have cleaned me
out. Now, that my weakness, and know
it. The systems all right, but don't
stick to 1t. Now, want you TO make me
stick to It. II you see me going on any.
thing else shall authorize you to take the
money OF the table"
81 know what IL will come to-" said Med.
hurst, III ! consent. You'll lose your own
money on your system, and then you'll
borrow this, and neither you nor will bs
penny better for the luck you've had"
The Daisy took of his hat for the FIRST
time since entering the room.
"As true as God'smy Judge, Medhurst,' p
he said, soiemnly, ''I'n never ask you for
. penny" . -. 4.
''If take 1t" said Medhurst, II shall dc
49, r 10 co. 40 hut
shs'n't lend the money to be thrown away
and I'll have nothing to do with the tables
except to watch your play there"
The Daisy rose aud handed to his com
panion the bundle Of notes.
There You are" he said. You're en-
listed. That's the Queens shilling. Rims
that laundering bell. I'm dying for 1
drink" ..
Now, Captain Harley Medhursr, though
he had something OF the air of roue, aud
looked rather hard bitten aud world-worn
was one of those people who have an evi
dent right to the conventional title Of gen
| tleman. There was no doubling that h,
was man Of good family. or that he hat
| been gently bred aud accustomed To mi1
with good society. No observer Of mel
| would have been very much surprised Il
| know that society Of late years had Tough
shy OF him. There Is something which n,
art OF description can clearly define which
marks the decldSse with q badge 30 paten
that very simple wayfarer may read Il
| Captain Medhurst wore that badge. ant
showed his consciousness of IL In his owl
chill and shifty eye He had been q gen
tleman in something more than the con
ventional sense once upon time, and wa
not quite gen iernan any longer.
| The Daisy, who answered to the title o
Major DE We're when he could induce peo
pie to address him by 1t, was person o
altogether another stamp. II . rare goot
heart. coupled with an intimate knowledg
Of all forms OF scoundrelism and ail grade
of scoundrel life In England, could hav'
made man q gentleman, the Daisy Nigh
have taken rank with dukes and princes
He had lived on his wits for the last five
and-twenty years. and. for the most part
had lived we'll Outside the sphere OF tn
gaming table or the betting-ring the Ma
jor's wits were not particularly brilliant
but on his own ground he was more tha'
respectable--he WAS redoubtable. A bel
ter hearted brigand never breathed. HI
lived by the most equivocal means cor
ceivable. and his hand was constantly II
his pocket for the relief Of distress. III
had happy audacity, born Of profoun
belief that no living soul could doubt tn
distinction of his manner, speech, and a.
pect. He ticketed himself ''snob" frov
head to feet. and conscientiously believe
himself to impress all and sundry wit
| hn1, tL.k he n NJ th
sss ss ysts5 Es5 had III nSnsy Sss tddTlS
ss his natural prey. He snd Medhurs
had formed themselves into gamblin
partnership at time when both were yer
much under the water, and the Captain
social cachet not being quite otliterate
at that moment, he had been able TO In
troduce his confederate into places wher
he would otherwise have had little chanc
Of obtaining foothold. The partnershi
foate6 both of them. in financial sense
but It ended in Medhurst's social shiI
wreck. He had played pigeon for . goo
many years. and the rocks had trtppe
him of Q handsome fortune. Now, lik
hundreds Of men who had gone betor
him, he had turned rook, and WAS read
to feather anything defenceless that Nigh
come In his way.
He had an almost pious horror for th
public tables. and he thought that Mont
Carlo was quite . sink Of iniquity. II
felt in respect TO the great gambling II
stitution there as . man who shot for tn
pot over few bare acres OF his own Nigh
feel II the birds upon his ground with on
consent betook themselves TO the pre-
serves OF some wealthy, princely reighbol
The existence OF Monte Carlo wes inim
cal to private, professional enterprise. II
had been feathered there himself, the poo
Medhurstt--he had been feathered ever
where--and he was grieved and indignar
; tn find hts partner 80 incurably snlitten b