The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-18

! suddenly he flung away the cigar ana
| hurried into the theater but he did not
seem to hear the concert, and as the mu-
sic ceased he started up, muttering to
himself Lets go and see that fellow
lose his 1900" and hurried away fever
ishly to the tables. He walked straight
/ to the second roulette table on the right,
| where a visitor was engaged in stacking
little piles of gold pieces-twenty little
piles at a time. That time he won on his
talest pile, staked on a fun number max
ing a considerable addition to the heap he
had already won.
II should advise you to stop now, NUT
tered the thin man standing by mis- chair,
but the plunger merely stared at him and
resumed his placing of little piles all over
the table.
HUM of course, if you will do it" NUT
tered the thin man. But don't say ]
didn't warn your
Zero turned up; and the plunger (wbo
despsed the even chances) lost all his lit
tie piles; but on he went again-full num-
bers, fun transversals, caTre, a cheval;
and again zero turned up, and away went
the little piles Then the plunger placed
very tall pile on zero-and zero did not
| turn up and so he went on until his heap
had disappeared, then he changed note
after note and lost all the change. Then he
slowly rose and glared at the thin man,
grinned a CHASTITY grin at the nearest
croupier and disappeared. ] subse-
] AutiAtlS itdlu lidJ ne idu AOSL li'VoV.
The thin man was becoming interesting
to me. He placed a j-franc piece on
'manque;" "manque' won; twice more on
the same which won: then twice on
'passe," which won, Fifteen or twenty
times he staked on the even chances
and never failed to win. Then he placed
on black the fifteen or twenty 5-franc
pieces he had won, saying to a crOupier
IN lose those" and black lost. He then
placed his original piece ON a full num-
ber-l5; 10 won. He left the 10 francs
he had won on the table and placed his
5-franc piece on 8, and turned up.
BY this time the other players had be
gun to notice him. He placed limit
stake on the 1; several persons followed
him and staked there ] turned up. Twice
he repeated the action on other num-
bers-and others followed him-and the
numbers won. The croupiers exchanged
glances and said few words to one an
other Then one Of the chefs got off his
high chair and went round to speak to the
winner, but the winner was not there; his
stakes and winnings, however, were still
on the table, where he had left them.
The chef went round the rooms to look
for the thin man, but he was nowhere to
be found. l had seen him quietly retire
as the croupier had said "One! and qui-
city walk out of the rooms.
Next morning after breakfast the thin
man was smoking cigar on the hotel ter
race, and an irresistible curiosity forced
me to speak to him.
II must congratulate you on your luck
last night ! said.
Luck, SIR repeated the thin man,
without moving his gaze from the pave
ment. His voice was hollow and dismal in
the extreme-utterly without hope, mo
luck about it at all, except bad luck
deuced bad luck, sir!'
You certainly did not seem to attach
much value to your success, to judge by
l.
you did | presume you are aware that
you won a considerable sum-"
Aware? Oh, perfectly"
And you do not call that luck?"
Il do not call it luck, simply because it
is not luck. and luck has nothing to do
with it," replied the thin man, turning his
gaze gloomily on me. 1T is certainty,
that's all. [ happen, l am very sorry to
say, to know what number will turn
, up"
What always?"
Eyes, always-confound it! That's
what's the matter with me, sir DO you
think 1 should have left my comfortable
home and come among a lot of ja5bering
foreigners if my COMPOUNDED doctor hadn't
ordered me to? DO look like it, sr?''
well, no; I must admit you don't. /
trust your health viii be speedily re-estab-
, lished, at any rate"
Not it, sir When ones fool enough to
20 ana get one OF THESE symptoms WnlCn
! the doctors haven't come across before,
one doesn't easily get rid of it, / shouldn't
wonder il this beastly knowledge of the
future were to hang about me for -"
! knowledge of the future? Surely that
l can hardly be classed as disease
! said.
"Oh, can't it, though ?The deuce it can't
sir! It's abnormal, isn't it? Very WELL
what's abnormals a disease, isn't it,"
/ But" l said, tits it not a very-an
extraordinarily unusual ailment to suffer
FROM"
"Of course it is" said the thin man.
l land doesn't that make it all the worse?"
r But what does 1t spring from?"
why from the fashionable, up-to-date
complaint-nervous exhaustion. over
work, sir, resulting in approximation OF
| the oelebral tissues-or some jargon OF
that sort. I tell you it's disease, sir; the
ancient seers suffered from it, 1 suppose
, anyhow, 1 do, and that's enough for me
e And camo away to get rid of it by change
- Of air"
pray forgive me-" I said, but your
case is so very peculiar and interesting
I that l am impeled to ask how this all
70 ment first manifested tself?"
q Unusual thing l felt tired and de-
% pressed-couldn't sleep had no energy
4 couldn't fix my thoughts. Then one day
when somebody asked me whether
r thought the fine weather was likely to last
! surprised myself by saying. No, it will
q begi TO rain at o'clock tomorrow after
e noon. and keep on all night 1 knew II
y would sir; and when my prophecy turned
70 out correct my feelings were mixed. sir.
y First 1 was surprised-then frightened
y then glaC: but on the whole fright pre-
n vailed. j wasn't comfortable, sir; and
n tried TO believe II was all nonsense; but
{ events would turn out as j foresaw, and
q conviction was forced upon me.
% NOW SIR. / dare say you think, What
% "a wonderful power 90 possess! What d
To- magnificent advantage Is itl Take ms
8 word for A.. you'd have a different opin.
+ ion if you actually suffered from a. Adj
vantage. cir! DO you consider % AN Hd.
I / vantage 10 foresee "a lot Of miserable and
10 horrible things which are destined 20 hap
81 pen DO you years hence. and to look for
- ward to them and brood upon them Hl
81 me Time until they happen