The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-13

went to gambling house and plaved
roulette L won and lost and won again.
flhaIiy, luck seemed with me- 1 had in
front OF me in chips and money the
$500 and about $4,000 besides.
AS the gamblers say, I was bound to
push my luck 1t seemed that the time
had come to strike and I struck. 7 put
up everything I had in front of me
Inc wheel went round and round. grew
dlzzy watching it. Then the little ball
dropped into one of the inches and
had lost. Lost 81 900 on a single Ven
ture. That was the end There was
just 46 cents in my pocket
Think of it! A beggar. An inch or
TWO the other way and I might have
peeh saved Nobody would have known
now pad Things were. l could have fixed
n.alIerS somehow But when the wrong
I am now" 49, anu mere
mere are men who were in the gam
pilhg mousse that night, who can remen-
Der valentines cry when the little ivory
pan fell into the niche marked %
Inc tall, slender young fellow had come
IIlo the room unnoticed, and had begun
pl('S iil9 quletly' Before long the other
men ABOUT the room were attracted nv
his run of luck" ~
me ODDS In favor of the bank at RON
!elle are considerable. The bank nave
the bettor thirty-ffve times his stake ~
the pail rolls into the space he selects
oet the bank has thirty-seven chances
OF winning out of thirtv-eigh+ tho 49,,
bered spaces including and 90
ON the red-and-black wheel tho sroooa
are numbered trregularly, 1, 81, 90 Ia 20
and so on around to 6, 49, %
THE LAST RISK; D1sAsTERr
4,l Flckle Fortune smiled benignly seven
nIyv
! i seen his pile increase from the orig.
inal $500 to S1O.9OO VI IS
II had all seemed so simn1e ca o1,,,u
ing. Inc ivory seemed an angel of Iob+
come TO guide him back to prohftv ga
HlahIlness. He wagered on the red ana
Gown INTO rosy nook settled the srbere
lie wagered on Zero and on t11mbia,1 ~ -
tWlrling ivory stumbling here ~ ' 1e
slulng out of 30 and nestline. corfor+o111
at last in 0. 00iiii u laoIy
me assistant was busy shoveline bic
cams over toward Valentine. Ths me-,
on either side of him looked ovor bia
shoulder enviously MS
o,o MUST nave a system said one voung
SHdp IN hoarse whisper to a cornns11
Ion. Valentine smiled YEARLY M
there was no system NJ
IL was a mirage that filled +hoso .b4,.
merlng ewes. There was no no+ 80 IN
at the end of the rainbow. Only nris,,1
81 ana a stone cell al Trenton, Stranon-
enough the prison suits are black and
req, IN horizontal stripes, eighteen hal
oIu elShteen red, like the inches on the
roulette wheel vi the
EdIeHIne mad won steadily on smaller
peIs at hrst, then on sums graduau,1 ~
creased. Now 1t seemed to hin, +bat a..
IIine mao come tc stake his whole Mic
ne SIaked 1t on six. If he had won II
Woulc have broken the bank Tba -. -
hn1 hot,
sight of so much money rfsked w.
was little gasp as the ball seemed -
hesitate at six then rolled on a little f,,r.
ther YEARLY, and dropped in twentI,-
three. twenty
Gone! Everything goneI' moaned Va
lentine iie0 "a
No one paid much attention then Sucb
incidents are too common. Now thew re-
member that cry
IWenty-three wins!' called the bank
er' Inc assistant swept the chins info
the corner. -P' ih'o
Make your bets, gentlemen, red or
pldck' odo or even, any number from one
~ 'iilI ly-slX' Inc voice was even to
monotony, the words were iterated ana
reiterated. Other voices less calm swirIed
around the long green board, checkered
with figures and lines. Five dollars on
the first twelve Put me down on +ba
red. Ten more on seven, nv lucky
SEVEN 4U1NS
But the tall, slight, nervous fellow
with the slim, delicate fingers and briebt
eyes, had slid off his stool with a erosn
lie staggered out of the room, not an eve
following him. Another play was in
progress.
1t was foolish, desperate chance to
take, chance almost certain to fail. II
was 81 to Ia long shot, indeed!
Out, of the thirty-eight chances the
oh
ring, equivalent to 81 per cent in it's
favor in play, as it averages.
When all the numbers on the layout
are filled up, as the bank. only pays the
winner thirty-five times his stake, It