The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-05


| haa 10 drink. mat lasted for ak days exactly.
You see. inside Of . week that bottle o. cold tea
cost me over h1,000.
YES, IL was expensive tSddH and III tel you
Msst Indies and Suyins their cargo. All good
morning and handed me n list OF goods they
wantet, and / made them an estimate. II came
ned them and they gave me the order. That
meant over Rl.0 o profit for us. and OF course
such a deal Inquired q little more s .Sd SsIty
on champagne and cigars, but before long they
wanted bra ndy. Two or three Captains dropped
whenever / had to drink myself l worked my
cold tea bottle. and II required some good engi'
ne ":BnG . to @,aPSSS 1t VENT In su ss I P Piifi wal, called
out. There was some matter that had to, be at
tended to down At the Custom House. and y was
a few minutes, ar r sending for more cigars
and telling them to make themselves happy till
pected. and more than an hour passed before
got back. Tho three Americans were just COM
Ing out OF the door as | reached II.
'Ididn't expect to be gone so long
They were as cool a. cucumhers, and saw
derteet here one OF them said. "A man, who
ceiye US in = large ono, so you can consider our
order cancelled. Good morning
would neither "Spiain nor listen to an explans:
tion, and just walked OF. When l got inside I
saw what the matter was; Thc two brandy
stood sS,stT' on HG he '@ 9aeis b snG % ,Ss S1tu : little Il So loves .ss
than whom ! left It That. told the story. They
dy4 bottles. and then. wanting more,
bad taken the bottle from nv de.k q
! Sss, and in they aF' jun npsi'0 ', the he" come Taf asio @p th..
did Il 70 deceive them, to get their heads full OF
d q 5,S i Snsle ! kept Kept ,S mine steady ,sat With cold .e "a.
Ing the case. I followed them up and tried to
eIplsin, but they were too angry to listen to
was the end Of the cold tea. We were doing.
big business: ou, net big enough to afford cold
I'm ,ho.e asys@ he continued "xhen did
R Bu, h no% u. .S. I ' ! do n %Sf Il mps shesl q lo @sn @ny 3SirS;
! Ir-t1.nk ed; Of course; That's The ECSy Of tho
ONCE, and made some money BY II: but that wa.
all; Charley Hallett was one Of our business
day to say Good.by my partner and / naturally
asked him where be was going. r..
sloo and enough for my expenses. and I'm going
to turn that hundred into q thousand or turn it
He was no gambler, either; but he was OF
for y holiday. and thought a little shy at Monte
Carlo woult add some interest to 1t, besides the
possibility Of paying his expenses. or even more.
Don't you want me to put something on for
II laughed at the notion: but my partner
possibility. We argued the thing for "a few min
the bank, and that whatever he won FOR US we
would get, You may think IT an old.fsshioned
pTGt,On: Du, tI ! never INK liked se the t tdss Of s sSs y , i
took out a half sovereign and said 1 would in.
vest that much In Monte Carlo. and no more.
very well. then, my partner said. ! will
put up the other half and we will fatten Monte
Carlo Just one SOW
OF him or from him. We had forgotten about
our big investment. nearly. when one day he
mia ,tWsIl hoy i Monte caFlor I asked him
broke me. Did 1t with great neatness and des'
patch. TOO. was lucky 70 have my return
Bristol He didn't look much worried over It
though. Charley was doing a big business in
And did our soT. go, too : asked. pretend
Ing 70 be very much alarmed about it. r-
come TO to BRING ring ; you SnS your wi iaDfni sag don't know
how much you have, for 1t has not beer
We went into tho parlor for a cigar and q
little cold tea, and sat down to the table and be
took a big offcial-lookinF envelope from an in
envelopes OF the gambling house, big and strong
and had the houses seal on the back. 1t wa,
coin rattle inside when he laid it down. and Il
was pretty we'll stuffed out besides. >,
he s; snG , / mus; yo tell o sHn s ass' a aS~ it y Sa' = : sos
After they had cleaned on. my 6Ioo / wa,
about to leave. when ! thought OF your SOY. ant
turned back to the table. Idian't mind losing
sands IL might have turned into and didn't
Well. that SOY: kept me busy for nearly two
hours. First, IL won for n while. then II lost fol
Hwhiis; no ~ m 1i,tls PIE si kept snsn o!nS Up Rr and on. dS Sode
plunge, so rs TO bring you either q handful OIL
nothing. 1t was stupid work. winning or losinR
so little at a time: and was growing drowsy
over Il! when | realized that ! w's beginning t.
m min, md IheF ss ss .,t Hu Minn a l!!''e gs i5s n m fr9n .i@ %
!. for a plunge" said to myself. and showed thu
whole pile on the red. I couldn't sit there al
twice as big. and l put the proceeds into my ha
and went up to the desk. Put that in an en-
yelope and seal it; will you'll Il belongs TO
!!r iH I said to II the man; JHG s re T. sns he he
!, their SO j on it and here It La, and you can coun
We'll" the merchant continued, Il wouldn'
open II. either. Till my partner came in. | wante"
! him to have his share OF the fun. II was almos
equal to finding a buried trc tSure-ship. on
small scale. I'd like to have that Sc led envelop,
lying here on this bench this morning. Blu
these things don't come to a man when, he's b.
D hind the lighthouse: It's only those who hav,
who can get. After awhile my partner came In
and we cut the end Of the envelope very CAREFUL.
, and emptied its %conten's out on the table. Their
!, we're some hnndret.tranc French n9les. som
, German notes. and some II ,lian. You know
! everything goes at Monte Carlo-or used &c
And some French Sapoleons. and some twenty
: franc gold pieces. and a handful OF silver OF
! oned the eS. hange. and it amounted to gil
and some s%hillings in our money. OF course. W
y tried TO divide with Oh riley. but he wouldn'
hear OF 1t. That was my first aud last expt
, gambling enough. and l turned Inc wrong car
3 In that. Bat what q lot OF Bristol Dir !sey
, that enveloDsful would buy at Id. the ounce!'