Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-08-11

| SEPARATION, but [ was n and couldn't get
away. l hastily made up my mind to
stay long enough TO lose 800 or so, and
then suddenly grow i'll and extr!cate
myself. 1t was happy thought. Cold
feet would pull ne out if my loss be-
came too towering.
LAS we sat down, however, two
things happened to disturb my dream
of cold feet as the means of escape.
Schenck was to bank the game, and
the first thing the Prince said was:
Give me f1,O00 worth of chips
$4,000. And he said it with no more
notice or emphasis than # he had said,
Pass the pie.
Il began to realize that l was liable
to lose my $4,000 the first hand, before
cold feet could come to the rescue.
To add to my grief the heir of the
Rothschilds placed book made up Of
signed checks by his elbow, with a
blank place for him to write in the
amount. This he did with blue pen
ell of the editorial brand. The ROths-
child didn't buy chips. He played in
these checks. No wonder | began to
sweat, to be caught between the bank
ing house of the Rothsch;lds and the
British Empire, with only $4,000. The
one ray of encouragement in i all was
that the duchess-fne old lady, too
only bought $1,000 worth Of chips
steered by that, and although groaning
inwardly, bought 81, 900 worth of chips
also. Schenck smiled approvingly.
learned afterwards that l did right. 1t
would not have been etiquette to buy
as much as the Prince. was glad Of
that. l would have been in fix if et.-
Quette had taken the other thousand.
well, it's hardly worth while TO ago
into the details of the game. The ante
was $10-four call ten had good enough
hands, bul was scared TO death.
didn't dare to bet them. The Prince
would look at his cards in a royal, er-
mined way and say:
Z raise the ante f100 pounds
"The young Rothschild would look at
his cards and observe, with the same
Indifference to my feelings which dis
tinguished the Prince:
IN see that and so ESQ better
These bloOd-curdling remarks took
place before the draw, mind you. And
then they'd lean back and call for
what cards they wanted, and organiz3
to bet $4,000 or $4,000, anything that
happened to pass into their rockies
minds. That's the sort of company l
got into. I lay down hand after hand,
and stayed out all | could, but fer all
my lodging lost 81, 200 in the frs for
ty five minutes; simply anted it away.
About the end of the first hour l got
three aces They were all that saved
me. too. | broke into a plethoric jack
pot with them, which the Prince and
the Rothschild Immediately raised sew
eral times as if for exercise. In the
end I won it. 1t swelled my fortune
over $4,000. After that l Unanswered
very cautiously and quit at p. m,
about SO 900 behind the game.
That ended my dash, as i were into
the royal family. l never passed a
more miserable afternoon in my life.
Sshenck and the duchess played along
with much calmness and phlegm, but
l was so oppressed with my danger,
and harassed by the reckless betting OF
the Prince and the ROthschild that /
have no recollection as to how they
Jared. Schenck asked me to other po-
ker parties. but I had a previous en-
gagement each time. Games without
limit against players equally unbound
ed are too many for me. '-WashingtOn
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