St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-13
A GAMBLERS GRATITUDE.

square, went To- -1t6mituFg TOT Tie SHOT
annual holiday which his father allowed
him from the routine of business. He
was merely salaried clerk in his
fathers bank, and was only accorded
precisely the same amount of freedom
that the other clerks enjoyed. Hence
he looked forward. to his. holiday witt
great zest, and he. was therefore rather
ANNOYED to find that on the present oc'
casion, even during that short period OF
endowment, he was not to be wholly free
from the cares of business. The day
before he started his fatber-who never
talked business out of business hours
called him into his private room at the
bank and said:
'Evasio, as you are going to HON
burg for yourhaIiday. you may as well
superintend the selling OF some prop
erty of mine there. which l am going tc
dispose Of. Mr.yWatson, my manager
will give you full instructions and nee
essary documents, and, when you have
received the money, you had better pay
it straight in to MeSsrs. POttSd0rf u
Guelph, our agents at HOmburg. That
is all. Now go and get your inStruc-
tiODS from Mr.. Watson. Stay moment,
though-here's e25 for yourself. That
will find you in little spare pocket
money"
The Young man. whose face bright
ened up a little iowa Il fine end of the
conversation. thanked his father and
pocketed the 95 notes which the latter
had placed on the table. Then he went,
as requested, to receive his instructions
from the manager about the sale of the
Homburg property. These, not being
very intricate, We're soon mastered, and
MIR. Evaso started for the famous Ger
man spa with the cOnsoling reflection
that the business involved by the sale
would not occupy him very long.
Arriving at his destination he made
up his mind to get the troublesome part
of his visit over as soon as possible. and
he pushed forward the arrangements
for the sale so quickly that at the end OF
the fourth day the property had been dis,
posed of and the purchase money, ABOUT
10000 forms, had been safely PAID into
the agents hands.
That same evening he visited, by way
OF amusement, one of the numerous
gambling saloons with which Hombure
then abounded. He did not enter II
with the intention, of playing, but as he
SlOOu lOOhlllS VII dU OlIC vi OIO lOuSN ~
noir tables and watching the changing
fortunes of the gamblers. especially OF
one man who was winning largely, ar
irresistible impulse came upon him tt
stake something himself. He accord
ingly laid down five f1orins, which he
lost; then ten more, which he also lost
Next time he again doubled his stake
but the 20 forms were likewise
swept away. He began to grow inn
patient. Surely next time he must win.
He would, therefore, stake more sub
Stantal sum; so he laid down 100 flor
ms. Peste! His was surely no begin
ner's luck. The 100 forms vanished
also! Biting his lip 10 check any out
ward show of veXatiOn, he resolved in
Wardly to go on until he won. But,
alas! his time for winning never came
He continued to stake wildly and lose
each time. when, tlaSt, on putting his
hand into his purseto draw out fresh
supply of money he found it empty:
and it had contained all the cash he had
brought with him to Homburg. Here.
then was pretty state of things! Not
siXpence left, and another week at
Homburg before him--to say nothing OF
the hotel bill which lie had already i'll
Cured and his fare back TO Eng land.
not troubled so much by this cOnSidera.
ton as by the fact that while he stood
and continued to watch the gambling
he determined inwardly how he should
have staked if he had had money left:
and almost every time the color came
up 10 his favor! 1t was maddenlng
He only needed tritling sum to win al
least 10000 forms; and that trif1ing sun
was not forthcoming. Shortly before
midnight he returned to his hotel, chat
ing and Respondent, and when he wen
to his bed it was not to sleep. He coulC
do nothing but toss restlesSly from side
to side. and brood over his losses an6
the chances of Hropge-et-noir. What {
pity that he had not a large sum o.
money with him ! If only he hat
enough to weather few reverseS at THE
outset, he was certain $50 he told him
self to win huge fortune.
And he had considerable sum to hand
True, it was his fathers money; bu
then. he would only borrow it, and re
pay it from his winnings. For that HI
must win if he went GU long enough h,
had not the smallest doubt. Besides
he was bound to raise some cash from
somewhere, if only to pay his hote
bill. And what better way than t
Having thus made up his mind wha
course he would adopt, he went dOWI
the next day to the agents and drew ou
5000 flOrins of the purchase money. L
would be foolish (he told himself) if he
were going to borrow this money at all
not to borrow enough to insure success.
When evening came he betOOk bin
self again to the same gambling saloon
flushed and eager with the prospect O
winning fortune. But, alasl his lucl
was even more diabolical than it haC
been on the previous evening, and The
more he lost the more he wildly staked
until in less than an hour every penny
of the 5000 tlorinS had been swept away
by the croupier.
Having now borrowed and lost 81
large part of his fathers money, Onl,
one course remained TO him-namely, Il
borrow some more and gamble with /
in order to make the deficit COON by hi
winnings. So the next day he drew GU
5000 tiOrinS more from the agents, be
ing determined that he would not fai
from lack of means to go on. But ever
long purse can't stand against de
termintd spell of ill-luck, backed b,
wild and reckless speculation. In quit
short time the 5000 forms had gon
the way of all the other money. To sa!
that the young gambler was franti
scarcely describes his frame of mind
Could he not raise little more none,
to continue with? For surely fortuna
must turn soon! There were still
thousand forms left at the agents; bu
they could not be obtained at this hou
of the night. And he had no friend
from whom he could borrow. Suddenl
a desperate and unlikely notion oc
cured to him. He would seek out TIL
proprietor of the saloon, state his cas-
to him, and ask him to advance tn
whole or part of the 1000 forms on
draft upon Pottsdorff & Guelph. HOY
improbable it was that the proprieto
would do this, for perfect stranger
scarcely struck him it its full force. Ii
was frantic to obtain the money, an
measured his chance of doing SO rattle
by his wishes than by the probabilitje
of the case.
No sooner had he formed the pla
than he acted upon it by requesting on
OF the walters to conduct him to tn
proprietor of the establishment. Th
waiter at once pointed out to him
short, well-dreSsed man. with dark hal