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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1889-01-25, Page 6Ill inng ai n &WS FRIFAY, dAN. 25, 1889. mu: or rt OR SUNSHINE and 8UADE, All right, ]Hugh answered, with the horrible newborn sarelese glee of his recent emancipation, l don't mind twopence what I do today. Vogue la galore ! 1 in game for anything, from pitch•nnd.toss; to nanulaughter. Re Bever suspected himself bow true those .casual words of the stock slang expressions were soon to become. Pitch/and-toss first, , and afterwards manslaughter, They strolled round together to the front of the Casino, that stately 'building in the, gaudiest .Hausiinannniz- rad Parisian style. planted plump down with grotesque incongruity beneath the lofty crags of the iiaratine Alpe. The palace of: sill: faces a large sand handsome open , equgre, ,with , green- sward* and fountains +rad,, parterres of flowers ; and all around stand coquet. tisk shops, laid temptingly out with . bonnets ainl,jewolryaud. aesthetic pro- ducts; for people who win largely "disburse freely, and many ladies hover about the grounds, with fashionabie , dream and shady enteedents, h► 'bo means slow to share the good - fortune of the lucky and ell too generous hero of the day. Hugh amounted the entrance staircase with the rest of the crowd, .and, pushed through the swing- ing glass doors of the Casino. Within they came upon the large and spacious vestibule, its roof supported by solid marble and: porphyry pillars. ;Pre- senta►tion. of their cards secured them the right of entry to the miles de feu, for everything,is free at Monte Carlo. --exceptthe tables. You may go in' and out of the rooms as you please, and enjoy for nothing—so long as you are not fool enough, to play-.- he use. of two hundred European newspapers and the music of a theatre, where a splendid band discourses hourly to all comers the enlivening strains of Strauss and of Gime. But all that is the merest prelude. The play itself which fortns the solid core of the :entire entertainment, takes place in the gambling saloons on the loft of the Casino.' ;sobsarnished with .their indliuspensablee little ticket of introduction, the three newceraers entered the rooms, and took their placer tentatively by one of the tables. The Russiap, selecting a Seat at once, addresed himself to the task like one well accustomed to sys- tematic gambling._. lough„and bis ac• quautance, Lock, stood idly benin.l, to watch the out come of his" infallible method. Arid alt .the time, - alone et Ben Item, W inifred's body lay on the sol- itary bed of death, attended only at long intervals by the . waiting -women and landlady of the shabby pension. morning, when the day's. work Hardly own game. Pray, don't interrupt me, for a further venture. dieesieurs et yet got well under way, the rooms, If your oaleulations go so very deep, mesdames, faites le jeu, the harsh though large and lofty, were past alt put your own money down and try voioe of the croupier cried mechanical - belief hot and close, doubtless Pram your luck agianat me. .&Xy principles, ly. The players laid down their the strange: number of feverish human . when, T foot discovered them, were stakes once more ; the croupier waited hearts and lungs. all throbbing and .not worked: out on the hack of an the accustomed interval, Le Jen eat panting their supressed esoitemeot, envelope, fait, be cried at last.; a nd the pea in that:single hle Caito and warming Tko gibe offended Hugh. Ina again went buzz ug and whizxtng• the air wittheir internal fires, He 'second he saw that. the fellow was Hugh was banking leis system ibis raised bin eyes and glanced for a wrong; he was misinterpreting the tine on the regular rule: three Joule. uluateat around the saloon. It Wits nature of hie own discovery, lie had on: the left.bund row of numbers. spaciaus and handsom. e, after its own neglected one obvious element of the Ile lost. That was but a .small gaudy fashion, richly decorated in the problem, The error was mathemati• matter, of (aurae, He had won. to dlauresque style of the Spanish eat: Hugh snapped at it mentally begin with; and a stroke of luck at Alhambra, though with far lase taste with his: keen preception—he had the first outset is responsible for- the and harmony of Dolour than in the taken a first in. mathematics et Ox- greaterpart of the most reckless restorations to which his eye lead ford --and noted at once that 0 the playing, Time after time he staked been long fenWiliarised in Loudon and Russian'pursued life present course. for and .prayed . staked and played--.. Sydenham. At Monte Oarlo, to say many turns together he was certain staked and played again, sometimes the truth, a certain subdued tinge of before long to go under hopelessly. losiug, sonnetirnes winning; but on vulgar garishness just roars the native Poi the sweet one deep .breath he the whole, the system, as he had. purity of the style into perfect accord hesitated and held. back. What was anticipated, proved fairly trustworthy. with the nature and purposes of that the use -of gambling with no capital to The delirium of play 'had taken full temple. nt< Mammon in his. vilest go upon ? Then,,tnore for the *eke of possession of hint,.body and soul, by avatar. proving himself right than 'of 'winning this time. lie was piling 'up. gold ; Hugh, however, for his -part had no; money, be shred into his pocket with piling it fast : how fast, be never scruples in the matter of. ;gambling. a sudden ' resolution, and drawing stopped to think or count. enough for He gazed up and down at the ten or forth five napoleons from his scanty him that the system won , as long As twelve roulette tables that crowded purse, laid them; without a Mord on 27, it won what waste of time et a oriti- the salles . de ;feu, with the utmoet and awaited patiently the result of his a , cal moment to slap and'recfiou the q*• complacency. He liked .plat+, end it action. •tentof his fortune. diverted bleu to watch it, especially The ,game ie made, the croupier He only knew that every now and when- the elan be ]meant. to observe called out as Hugh, withdrew bisband. then lie thrust a fresh handful of gold was the propounder • of a new and After that; Warning signal, do stakes or notes into his pocket --for Elsie— infallible system. Infallible systems can be 'further ' received • or Altered.; and went on playing with feverish are always interesting: they collapse Whir•r.r went the roulette. The "pea eagerness with the residue of Iiis with u► crash amusing to everybody spun round with whizzliiig ' epeed.; winnings left upon the table except. their propounder. He bent his Hugh looked oil, -all eager, in •a fever By twd a cieck, however, he began eyes closely upon the bands of the of suspense. He half regretted he had" to get lunngry: Ttiiis tort of . excite. l Russian, who herd now pulled out his backed 27. Ue wase sure to lobe. went taker it rapidly out of a ' rush; roll of gold and silver, and was eagerly The chances, after alt, were so enor : Law had diesapeared from the ahem beginning to hank his chosen numbers, mouse against him, Thirty.six-'toronet long since. '-Me'wanted somebodyto doubtless with the blind and stupid If you win its a.. fluke. What a. fool •o and feed with. So he leaned •er confidence of the infatuated system he had been to run the risk of making aging whispered casuiallyto R,a$i4levtky: monger. riimaeif look small in this' gratuitous Shalt weturn' out now and take a Raffalevsky, however, played a way before the cold Vol ' of that mouthful or two of lunch-together1 cautious opening.. He started modest,' .unfeeling itussiau.• Raft'alevek looked back at him with ly with four or five franc pieces, dis• He knew he was right, of. course : tributed ;about on a . distinct plan, 27 was the systein. But a 'sensible a pale face. .s tired will, he said and each df them staked on a separate system never bangs upon .A single weatilfLoser, losses all the line. play. e. number. The five. franc piece, in fact, throw. It depends upon t s • long cal• alongh is the minimum coin permitted to °elation of chances; You must let 'system breaks down here a and there, 1 show its, face on those aristocratic oue risk balance,another..-,Refalevsky find, in actual practice. tables ; and six thousand francs is the had twelve thousand penile to fall 'Sol ugh had observed with - placid maximum sum which the bank allows back upon. It he failed once, to him smite for the last hour or two. any one player to hazard on a single that didn't matter i he Could go on . They left the tables., and strolled twist of the roulette:' .between these still, and recoup himself in the end by across the square,to the stately portals extreme limits, all possible systems means of the system, t)nly under] of the Hotel de Peri:. Hugh was in must.needs confine themselves, so that such circumstances of a full purse can , entellent spirits indeed, ' the common martingale of doubling any Method of uambling ever by any i Permit me to constitute myself the the,stakes at each unsuccessful throw possibility be' worthenytiiing. Broken, float, monsieur, hr, ' amid with his becomes here practically impossible. reeds at the best, even for a Bothe. courtliest air to Raifalevsky*. He had Eaffalevsky'.s play had been carefully: child, they must almost necesaarly , won heavily now, and was in a humour calculated. Hugh, who was already pierdco the hand that leans upon them on all grounds to spend his winuings well versed in the mysteries of taunt if it veuturea to try them on a ' pretty with princely fiiagnificener,„ te, could ,see at a ,lance that the scrap of pocket capital. And Jingles The Russian bowed. You are very Russian tied- really a mot:hod , in leis eapital Was greti;siioely scrappy for kind, monsieur, be aussvered with .e madness.' Re was wonting ou`strict such a large ve`nttite`-he bad only ariule."'Tiie5A'be added, half .apologe`ti•- unathematicat principles, Sometimes some seventy Sire Olinda about Him. tally, at the end of a pause : And he divided or decreased bis stake ; Flow swift is thought, and how long after all. it was my own system. sometimes, at a bound, he trebled or a time it seemed 'before the pea jump- The carte wee tempting, and money quadrupled it. Sometimes he plunged ed 1 He had reasoned out all this, was cheap—cheaper than in London on a single number ; sometimes for and, .a thousandfold more, in his own. -Hugh ordered the most sumptuous and several turns together he steadily ;:hind with lightning speed while that recherche of lunoheous, with wine to backed either.red or blade, pair or Sin foolish whes; was still whtrliug and'match,; on a millionaire scale, and pair. Bt.; on the whole by hap or spinning. If 'he won at all, it could they sat down together at the luxur, cunning, be really seemed to be win only be by a taro stroke of fickle iona tables of that , lordly restaurant. Hing rapidly. His sustained success fortune. Thirty six to one were the While they waited for their red mule made Hugh more anxious than ever odds .against him 1 and if he lost, he. ,let, Hugh pulled. but to stray 'Handful to watch: bis play. It was clear be must either leave off at once, or else of notes and gold and began to count had invented a genuine system. in accordadee with. the .terine of the up *the 'extent of his winnings. He Might :it be after all, as he said, an system, eteke ten'louis neat turn on 'trembled himself' when he saw to how infallible one 2 . 14, or nine louis on odd or even." At .very large a sum the total amounted, If only Hugh could find it out ! He that rate, his poor little caFital would He had pocketed no less in that short root, he wontd marry, Elsie. How soon be exhausted. How he longed time fourteen hundred Innis ! Pole wand to marrybier, a rich man t Ho- for Ratl'alevaky's twelve thousand to that bled. and toil and moil is London would have to lay at Elsie's feet a for- draw upon. He would feel iia small, for a long,. long. year. upon Half , that tune worthy of his beautiful Buie if 27 lost And if there Weis any- pittence 1 •1I ow he pitied and despised Things were all changed now, Tie, ,thing on earth that Hugh Massinger them 1 Ir, three brief hours; by the had something to live, to work, to hated it *as feeling.suuall : the sense aid of it system, he had won off hand gamble for 1 If only he could say . to of ignominy, ai.i1, its opposite • the "fourteen bunilied louie 1' • his recovered Elsie : Take me, ,etch: the feeling of -personal dignity, were Ile mentioned the earn of hie famous, great—take me. and White. deeply rooted in the very base and core winnings with hated breath to the strand, no. longer sand swept. I lay: of selfish nature. ., unsympathetic Russian. Itaffalevaky lay it a.1 in your lap for you gracious., At last the pea :Jumped.. A breath- bit ins lip with undiegu?eed < jealousy. aco'ptanpe--these piles of gold—these less teoond 1 The . croupier ..looked And I. he said curtly, in a cold voioe, heaps of coins 1 But be bad nothing, Over et it and watched its fall. have dropped sixteen hundred. nothing, save,the few napoleons he Vingt Sept, he cried in his stereotyped jt's wonderful with, Whitt placid carried about him. If he had but the tone. Hugh's heart leapt up with .a •lepths of heroism the winner$ eau E ssians twelve thousand pounds sudden wild bound. The .fever of endure the losses of the losers. flow 1 he would playand Win—win a play had seized on him now. He had, itlevor mind, my friend, Hugh answer- tontine at a stroke for his darling woe at a stroke—f► Luudred and ed buck cheerily, Fortune always Elute. st a ty-wve Louis, takes a turn in the long run. Her Here- as a capital indeed upon wheet will atter. Yon 11 win soon. wliioli to begin. .1 -la would eek his And besides, you know, have an in - own syr eau with _ this ag;.i tet Ref. fallible system. f"aieveky �Orrather be would back It's the nursed system that seems to Raffateveeky s disoovery as wrongly . have betrayed me,. the ilusalain blurted applied and distorted through an back with a savage outburrbt of un- essential error of detail by its original checked temper.' It worked out so inventor. ' well on :parer. somehow ; but On It was system pitted against system these precious Wiles, with their turns now, 'The croupier raked in the and evolutions, some thing unexpected CHAPPEii XLIV.--Lsons4 AND aswiLE.unt. 'Mete Poon Mont r Thaugh play bad: only just begun when Hugh and his companions entered the.ea'con, the rooms were already pretty well crowded with regular visitors, who camo early to secure their accustornod ;seats, and who 'bent` 'forward with big rolls of yolk piled high in o rhumns on the table before them, marking down with a dot on their tablets the winning numbers, 40d -stoking their twenty or thirty i:age Iona with mechanical caleiness on every turn of that fallacious Whirligig. Hugh had often heard or exd sensational descriptions of the eagerness depleted upon every face. the anxious gaze, therapt attention . the oblvious fascination of the game for' its votaries ; but what struckhim rather on the first blush ofit all was the exact opposite ; -the stolid iodifl'er- ettee with which men and women alike inured to the varying chance* of the board, Inst or won A couple of dozen pounds or so Ott each jump of the .pea, as though it were a inatte'r of the i�supremest unconcern tO .thorn n their capacity of gamblers whether they or the bank happened tp take up, eacharticular little heap of money. They seemed, indeed, to be tummy stab and blaze people, suffering from plethors of thio purse, who could afford to throw away their gold like nater, and who threw it away eatreleulafly a It of pure wantonness, tot the sake of the small modicum of passing excitement yielded by the uneertalety isce their jaded palates. Nevertheless, lis retnarked with se rptiaie from the very firet moment a tt event at that early Mout bf the I Tired with the thought, he watched Ratl"alevsky more closely than ever. In time, he began to perceive by de- grees upon: what principle the money was so regularly lost and won. It was 'a good principle, mathematically correct. .Hugh worked it out hastily onthek envelope. o bs. of ne e c e 1 . Yes,in f p one hundred and twenty chances out of one hundred and thirty-seven, a Man uught to Win ten Ionia and a scattered gold heaped on the various is always bobbing no to spoil and tura wing seven lost, on an average l cabalistic numbers, squares, end prevent my legitimate triumph. reckoning. At last lttffalevsky, after diamonds ---and amongst them, Rat would you believe it, now, last turn several good hazards, laid down five falevskyra five napoleons upon 24. but one, and the turn before it, I had lotus boldly upon 24. 1-tugh touched Then he paid the lucky players their calculated seven hundred and twenty, lila shoulder with a gentle hand. {rains ; counting out three thousand two distinct chances all is rayfavour Wrong, he murmured in Trench. eve hundred Mines with practised to a miserable solitary oneagainst mue: You make a mistake there. You ease, and handing them to Hugh, who and not one of the seven hundred and abandon your principle. You ought was One -among the principal winners twentyetwo combinations ever turned to letee beaked 27 this time, by that particular'* torn. In two up at all, but just the one beastly The .Russian looked hack at him minutes more, the hoard wait cleared ; : unlucky osiinjunction that made with an angry stale; ao slight a the wooden curl had healed in all the . against me and ruined my specula.: scratch at once brought out the Tar. bank's receipts; the fortunate players, time, ton might play for seven ter. "Back it yourself, their. Mott• bad lidded to them' winningz to the; hundred and twenty;two turns on an heart Ile acid attdd'enir, I make my heap Wore thein i and all wet ready average ngaI itt with that ever happen, Ing a St IA time out to confound you. CHAPTER XLV, — RA Mo vs IN - DEEP. After a sum,ptious luno]:, Thigh and the Russian returned to the rooms. To the rooms l—say rather to the treasure house of Crureus 1 On the eters, they passed a young English lad, >vleo looked barely twenty, Don't tell mamma I played, lie was saying to a oompauion ruefully as they passed biro. She'd break her heart overiit, if site ever knew it. But Hugh had. no time to notice in passing the pathos of the remark. Who could bother his head about trifles like that, forsooth,. when he's coining his hundreds on the turn of a roulette table 1 He meant to win hundreds—thou• sands :now. lie meant to build up a a colossal fortune -for Elsie, for Elsie, • Three yeara had taught him a cer- tain sort of seltiehness. It eras no longer for his own use that be wanted money, he longed. to lay it down. at Elsie'e feet. She was his Queen : be would do her homage. The table had tilled up three file* deep with players' by this 'time. Hugh had hard work to edge hie way dexterously in between them : the• Russian followed with equal difficulty. But a croupier, recognising thein, motioned both with a courteous wave of his band to two 'vacant chairs .he had kept on purpose. Men who win --or lose --large autos commend respect instinctively at Monte Carlo. Hugh and the Russian had each quali. fled, on one or other of these opposite grounds#, "for 'a 'seat at the table. Hugh's turn by the system, however, had not yet come on : be had to wait, according to his self -impaled law, • till one 'of the four middle numbers should happen to turn up before he . again began staking. So he gaged around with placid interest' for some minutes. at his crowded fellow -players. Success excites some 'nervous beads ; it always made Hugh Messinger placid. ']'here tbey sat and stood,. not less, he thought, than five hun- dyed busy' men and women, ' fifty, or sixty jostling one another round each seperate board, playing away as for dear life, and risking fortunes giddily en the Jump of a pea in that meaning- less little whirligig of a spinning rouiette wheel. She was a Geriioatu, he conjectured,that fat faced impas- sive lady opposite, gambling caution% but very high, and laden on her 'neek and arms 'and ears with an • atrocious*: dead weight',of-vulgarly eXperteivirjese elry. .'rhea the bold but handsome young girl at her aide, with the exquis- ite bonnet and well cut mantle, and the remarkably full•blown Peensyl vanian twang, must surely by 'her voice be an 'American sin - Sen. By her voice and by her play; far she risked tier- `broad gold hundred franc pieces wits • true boric American recklessness rf Consequence. And there, a little way off. stands a newly miirried English- roan, with his pretty einall nestling close unto him in wifely expostulations. Hugh could even csiteb snatches of their whispered colloloquy :Don't George, don't.—Jost this once. Nellie: a napoleon on red.—Black- wins : he loses, --Win, the chances there are only even. If I%fiin next time, I get nothing but my own old napoleon back i again. 1'!1 go it one better now; •a nap on a column Then if I *in you see, I get four tunea my Stake, Nellie —Lost again 1 IL* fast they rake it in. SesWell, then, I'ld. bank is number this tithe•.,- ..Oh, but, George dear, you know you really can't afford it. --George, unabashed by the wifely reproof, plumps down his napoleon on 32. ' Whir 'goes 'the roulette.--eDix- Guit, cries,the croupier, and sweeps in the gold with a careless ctirve,ef his greedy hand rrtke. Poor souls 1 in his heart, Thigh • Messinger ,. wita genuinely sorry for theta. If only they bad known leis infallible system 1 se flu con'asun.j CATARRH, Catarrhal': Deafness,- May Fever. X NEW IMAM 'r11KATMZNT. 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