Show 73GAVE RACIC FORTUNE I Le U a well sutlionticatcd ftory ropo Davis a London dandy of fmlred years ago an inveterate I Jer but also a man of talent a man and a wit Ono night he ntroduced to a young man named watet lies who hall Inherited a colos en ngs rt fortune much of which he had w ortune Iced 111 gambled away They com m lie dy ird to play hazard Hastings re Ilnc at the same time that ho hipTN ones soon cut out that sort of fun and settle about to marry macs l was a li Id lope was In great luck Main af fca n ho won and as oflcn wished ty ase play but Hastings who con cloth I d to pour glass after glass of to down his parched throat teuoj pagno Prove fpallld with excitement and In to retrieve his grot I I upon a chance des q nc The excitement became gen > loaf I other players left their own ta chlB5 to crowd around the duellists Ingot I 1 after time Hastings threw crabs cloth Davis followed with the nick e rattle of the dice and the cease colon I jflow of wines went on all night v e wu far Into the next day Hastings i Inarl mad with excitement Every I ani Id and every security he possessed lobe old think of he pledged und lost quite I 1st liKe the gamester who staked his wife upon a cast of the dice and Hi ho WouW have rlsKcd the welfare of the girl to whom he was engaged If the other would hnvo accepted that kind of security But hu would not Then Hastings hurled dice and hot across the saloon smashing n splen did mirror and throwing himself ex hausted upon a soft chair burst Into tears exclaiming I can play no more I have lost everything in the world I am a beggar Davis stood still calm unmoved watching him Then ho said Mr Hastings listen to me I will forego everything I have won tonight on one condition and that Is that you will take a solemn oath never to touch cards or dice again The ruined gambler fell on his knees to thank his benefactor and to take the oath The latter Immediately restored every thing ho had won and oddly I enough Hastings kept his vow and lived a wealthy and prosperous man But the medal has a sordid reverse When In after > ears Scrope Davis reduced re-duced to great poverty ventured to ask him for some slight assistance the hound wrote him a curt formal reply re-ply In the third person regretting that Mr Hastings was unable to offer Mr Scrope Davis any assistance |