Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-09-30

How do you get. on with them?"
I asked, being aware from observation
that he had grown a bit careless of
late. Jack Drummond was tired of
these perpetual losses.
The fact is, old fellow" he an
swered, their faces have brought me
Internally bad fortune and In, utterly
sick of the whole afair To-morrow
they are going to draw cut the re-
mainder of the half a million, and
we're going for the tables with the
maXimum-win or lose"
You're desperate" l laughed, add
ing: Save enough for the viatique."
Now. that's cruel" he said. with a
grim smile. We'll, I'll try and arrange
so that they won't have to give note
of-hand to Bornier to enable them to re-
turn to London. Goodnight" and,
rising, he went jauntily out. Care
and losses alike sat lightly on the
shoulders of that born sportsman.
Next day I saw all three sitting at
the center of the first left-hand table
the one where so many huge coups
have been made from time to time
during the past five or six years 1t is
a table particularly in favor with the
professional gambler, for the wheel
seems to run with greater regularity
there than at the others, and it is
therefore known to the habitues as
the lucky corner" At this table one
afternoon zero turned up six times in
succession, followed by the number
SIX, which also came six times in sue.
cession, the most curious run which
has ever been known during the years
the rooms have been open. On that
afternoon a fortunate gambler won
$4,000 francs on those II turns of the
cylinder.
Play had already opened an hour
before entered. Drummond was sit
ting between the pair, and, as l stood
watching, l saw that Mabel had be
meath her hand her stout leather wal
let already bullying with notes they
had won. Before Drummond was o
formidable pile of notes of equal value,
each for 1000 francs, and at every
invitation to play he staked six notes
constituting the maximum, upon the red
or the black, the pair" on the impair
Time after time he con the re
spectacle sum of 5000 francs, his orig
inal stake always remaining on the
table, although he changed its position
from time to time. After nearly hah
an hour he bent and consulted Helen's
card, whereon she was keeping a reg
lister of the game, then placed 15C
francs en- plein on the number "a
and similar amount On IT.
Rein ne va pIus." cried the crou
pier sharply, a moment later adding:
"Dix-sept! Noir, impair ct manquen
Drummond smiled. The girls bent
and whispered to each other, and the
croupier handed to Mabel a bundle OF
500-franc notes, which she tried tc
push into her already filed wallet but
could not.
will you remain playing?" heard
Helen say to the captain. I'VE are
going over to the Credit Lyonnais to
bank this before they close. We shan't
be more than ten minutes"
How much have we won today"
he inquired.
''One hundred and eighty-nfne thou.
sand francs" she answered, glancing
at her book, as her sister and herself
rose and left the table.
Their seats were quickly occupied
by two men, and Drummond, who still
had before him pile of notes for
a,1
with the maximum upon the red or
black, losing once or twice, but very
often winning. He certainly had I'm
usual luck, for when one is desperate
as the two sisters were, one is seldom
able to make coup.
About an hour had elapsed. 1 was
busy in my room writing a report
when an attendant entered GREATNESS
ly with scared face summoning me tc
the Office of M. Bornier, the director
general, where, to my surprise, found
Drummond standing before him, pale
and agitated, together with the chez
de partie and two of the eroupiers
Upon the directors table lay pile Oh
1,0C0-franc notes.
IL dppedIe GU tHdI zen H4HuteS DeiOFe
the croupier, in handling one of the
notes which Drummond had lost, was
attracted by the strange harshness of
the paper, and examined it, only tc
find it spurious, but so weli done as al
most to defy detection. Play was
instantly stopped, and, by the orders
of the chef de partie, the captain was
conducted to M. Bornier. In reply to
his interrogation, he explained that
the notes were those given him that
morning by the elder Miss Treherne
and it was possible that she had been
imposed upon. Such, however, was
certainly not the case, for messages
sent to the Metropole and to the
Credit Lyonnais brought back disap