The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-15

discussed the plan, and mado a list of things they would need to get away with the money. They provided them selves with canvas sacks to carry away the gold. and dad drew all his money out of the bank, and that evening we took a train for Monte Carlo. All the way here dad and his new friend chuckled over the sensation they would make among the gamblers, and l bc- came real interested in the scheme. There was to be some fun besides the winning of the money, because they talked of going out in the park and on the terraces when they were tired or winning money. and seeing the poor devils who had gone broke commit suicide, as that is said to be one of the features of the place.
 We'll, we got suit of rooms ana the first day we looked over the place, and ate free banouets and saw how the people dressed, and just looked pros porous and showed money on the slightest provocation, and got the hang of things. Dad was to go in the big gambling room in the afternoon with his pockets fairly dropsical with money, and the Dakota man was to do the betting, and dad was to hold one of the canvas bags, and when 1t was full we were to take it to our room, and quit gambling for awhile. to give the bank a chance to raise more money. Dad insisted that his partner should lose a small bet once in awhile so the bank should not get on to the fact that we had cinch.
 After luncheon we entered the big gambling room, in full-dress suits, and by gosh! 1t was like a kings recep- ton. There were hundreds of men and women. dressed for a party, and it did mot seem like gambling hell. ex- cept that there were piles of gold as big as stoves. on all the tables, and the guests were provided with silver rakes, with long handles, to rake in the money. Dad said in a wisper to the Dakota man: What is the use of taking the trouble to run a gold mine. and get all dirtied up digging dirty nuggets. when you can get nice, clean gold, all coined, ready to spend, by betting right?" And then dad turned to me and, he said: 'Hennery, don't let the sight of this wealth make you avaricious. Don't be purse-proud when you find that your poor father, after years of struggle against diversity, and the machinafiGps of designing men, has got next to the Pferpont Morgan class. and has money to buy railroads. Don't
 
 money, but just act as though 1t was a regular thing with us to salt down our gold for winter, the same as we do our pork"
 A count. or a duke, gave us nice seats. and rakes to haul in the money, a countess, with a low-necked dress, winked at dad when he reached into his pistol pocket and brought out a roll of bills and handed them, to the Dakota man, who bought $500 worth of red chips. and when the man looked the roulette table over and put about a pint of chips on the red, dad chock- ed up so he was almost black in the face, and began to perspfre so had to wipe my face with Handkerchief: the gambler rolled the wheel and when the ball stopped on the red, and dad did the raking and raked in a quart of chips, and dad shook hands with the Dakota man and said: "Pard, we have got 'em on the run" and reached for his sack to put in the first in- stallment of acquired wealth, and the low-necked countess smiled ravish- ing smile on dad, and dad looked as though he owned a brewery, and the Dakota man twisted his chin whis- kers and acted like he was sorry for