Show A A UP GAUDS CARDS J 1 disastrous arous trous results of an troll ablo fascination it asia shand bome room in plantation aid bolam houam ouse A room all might alight with b brilliant ant c chandelier and lamps which cast their radiance over the ibo luxurious furniture and brought out every fold in the ibo heavy crimson cur curtains talmit c cry tint lint in n tho the dark rich carpet which covered the floor A blazing blaring wood tire train in the large old fashioned fireplace asro place nod and rh whenever enever it showed signs siena of d dingott din ing gout out a colored man ki aho be it was as seated sealed on a batool steel in n tho the corper corner of the hearth licar lh would it with fresh tuffs logs A table bablo stood in the center of tho the room nand and around it 11 were seated scaled four gen absorbed in a ramo game of cords cards on a tide bablo acre cro silver tras tra cul ut glass decanters full of liquor colleas collets col lets mid cold tome game a 91 li venison entson olives an ciovic dica li ovic and all tho the luxurious accessories of a choice supper tile the servant Bervon tnt artlie tho fire yawned dawned sleepily led ind glanced at the cloth clock abich was ros on the atio of two live reckon maw marsters govino keep it up nit till rond day ho be thought discontentedly tented ay iy aind fcc so dat sleepy I 1 ban ter 0 keep my c yes eye open won wen tint dat lowry conics comes to barwood ita cards I 1 bord and I 1 ibid from night till morning mornin and from mornin mor nii till night ns its well do kint dont pot got no ito dambly ter keer what ho be does 1 lut ul uy any mist aiss jest a creio tier her huriy purly acx out COZO cazo mass hos jest SOL on oil a U apost upost my word 1 I 0 ono 0 tho rent lemell helping himself from ono DO of it tho d I 1 if you an and it I 1 haven I 1 t had tho the tears woral lu ha lc thi clebit aks hal and I 1 low lot TV ry havo have beaten us a most almost every game its lt not nothing hills new to mr to havo have bad luck I 1 1 t cards Alki ui 11 1 mr falknor said with a forced laugh aie he dij was 9 a man mail about thirty cars old villi ann onto cut features aud and a nc 1 intellectual head a man who ahoo laugh 2 looked with cordial ind liess upon every one but to tonight ably oro A excited wandering look 1 1 FLIP flippone POle I 1 ought never to touch a card ft A far as luck goes but ilia title is sure to uru urn some bonic day besides my fortuno fortune west was bynn by in old sho she battla aid a of cards v would save aavo me DIO from faoro rulo ruin a tale with a long laugh as im not a thou thousand ned ites fr from the loo last come came ive a right to wet a fu ful ent nl or of tho iho prophesy ib eff H U lowry lawry 1 was as the oldest man of the ibo I 1 aty m man NOW grizzled bat haarand r and board lil ill aalf possessed with an inscrutable c which reflected his thought and it lings huge if ho he really had bad which wo 0 who know liim best doubted ile ho ja not af a rood family the iho owner of a flue floe laie mud aul if ho be was wa food of curd cards N why by ill III at a 6 a vare weakness akness common to all his bis I 1 19 them at that lain 0 though ho be played 11 excellent TAIDO larame n no 0 0 no ever suspected niini A or of an unfair ono one he amply seemed to mcc must creAl cie 1 cards as ho he mustered ver vcr othor chanco in bythe force of all in Indo avitable aej 11 I 1 u do not think a our friend fullmer should comp lain lie ho sold bald in fa bis big cold c e en ell voice 11 Is boon been such a lucky man lit things moro more important than caido that lilia ile too tda ecle lits he be mut must make some sacrifice to lostine uc lie has ban tho the finest estate tho the hest wife and the most beautiful children in liu ba country eio tat unlucky at cards well I 1 ki tt lio lie am lucky am a lonely old bachelor v tt ILK ith Y lifo life moro more than laetit lived and linding finding M auy jr only amusement in n R friendly gam a now navy gentlemen I 1 appeal to you which of us ua lit tile tho lucky onel anc I 1 oh 11 Falk I 1 Fal knorl they cried in shortie LI come ft a health to the lucky loser and d the iho unlucky I 1 Is tito toast was drank nol hil hilt and UM ivas followed by several others and then two of the iho party took their leave leaving as usual aoun l lory and their host to the night poor 1001 jerry punching up the iho ire groaned in ba inmost soul dot dab olo gatans satans ewina ter clean out ho he goes away pt he be thought wot vol fools what whito folks is tobe I 1 I 1 dont like dom dmn little slips of paper malater keeps v allm oud nod handin to do oft ob ise ilse BO alc and he bo dozed sitting silling upright on lit bi stool a b habit abit ho he had acquired as lire fire tender code fritag tho the looff long watches of tho be night flight the clock less ama striking four when jerry roused himself biniac lf nod rubbed his ef cco CS th the 0 attitude of tho 1110 two was no bagged haug cd but jerry noticed that the be scat cat was in big hi drops on mr felk falk boer tiers e brow avid and hix his hand wits was though ho be often had le courso to tho the do cantors banters by lots his side jerry noticed thol that his face was as ghastly palo and his ats eyes wild 1 I believe colonel youve rally pretty well I 1 leaned cleaned mo me out ho he said pushing puebla 9 the cards I 1 from rom him and laug laing a wild lt do a laugh except tile the mail land and most moil of t tho be cerates 1131 property you know every thing I 1 own is rone la 13 that thai colonel lowry lory said luid cook con suiting tile tho slips of paper well lack has been against gainal ri you hut but I 1 cant say that caro care for any moro more than I 1 already own HAVO have you a rood house deeper heaper among your own slave lave my cheat mu me right and left I 1 cover have q meal decently served and I 1 want a rood good steady servant to take elrio pt 91 my ano 0 i anum um lisa said mr fit fil ll 11 ir I 1 I 1 lie fe wn wax so miserable that tic ile doll I 1 nu L yen aldor v nor at the colonel Rt ringo lun alit I 1 money cant buy tier br abbo hbo w roi 3 chil children drou a 9 burso and site otice lt first as I 1 rolo housekeeper 11 ousie keeper ell elf then ill tell you abat M but I 1 m 0 do I 1 in b bibi I 1 cold deliberate TOUA q 1 I have anoro or 0 money on e V at ready thin than I 1 can call spend and if I 1 dont want yours you say nay you ire ruined avid and to meet our dibala you wi wa 1 probably bo be tea fenced to 10 wit your plat 06 bair lma I 1 hirel tondi now ow ro aco larro bore I 1 11 mil all pt ill all I 1 to van m fro froin neou jou lo abl at th lh td it doltar dollars your you r house keval mr falkner poured out a goblet of brandy and 9 swallowed allowed tl it he was ruined and lie be knew it L and he be knew too loo that his its wito wife coald o all lice posse to pay ili iiii aind ob buell babist 11 lie cha bad d won wait a frit games that night and why al lovold lio lie not dot fit atone one lucky stroke boho retrieve blom I 1 A brain located by liquor and excitement I 1 in of if irm thought and ho he cried out done ihunt liza lim against your win bink oh my muttered jerry juni up tip tn in ili iiii 6 revilement 1 F er f I 1 ho 0 balut put up tip mauna maum liza end and she w ald fiur u r and add tier her chil luns and slid a imlau as bucit ob tier larns as of ct she oho NT wor 0 r her own oan total ILI ila alno I 1 n tor ter ila bo law die th alio llio 1441 armra Wr MRA ft ito batill aol his h A 1 A d W with walh starting eyes cys be watched not the tha game but tile lit piers pl or ho knew of cord hul but in ila lit lion nir maulers aRters faco face bo be read as in ail open olson tile hope ilia beur and nd tho the object abject despair anith which tic he plowed hie bis last can card done for by jovo jaya lie cried in a trem balur voice and cot cohered erca ills his faco face with hit 1114 hand ilo loud ji a grent deal but not enough to lo the sharp lilii pain paia with ibach blab lie 10 rc rea anil that lie hall had boon been guilty of tho the vilest und and meanest act of lain hn life in menio memory rybe lie saw lua children lu ili tho arms of I 1 liza lia their bright beads billowed pillowed pill pallo owed wool on her broant find her loving oleo soothing their ill falit woes boes such n good faithful ncr voni never weary in tier min 9 at the iho bed and so cheerful and sma ito ho was w roused by colonel lorys voice look he re you m must us not worry about auit your loni jesse you can t tako a ko your ov own n time to pay them avid and if its ite not you think of them for years and jears cars I 1 suppose Bu pHao you would fool feel insulted it I 1 proposed to cancel I 1 the ho debt altogether lieupo yr I 1 Irusha must hac c and just 0 as S S soon X n L as possible dy BY the iho way its broad daylight and I 1 presume ibo woman Is up and about suppose you send jerry for her id like to see ber I 1 1 toti tell maum lial to como come here jorry jerry to mr ir valiance said in a choked voice well veil I 1 bolletio bol levio 1 wont wait vait 11 colonel I 1 low nry ry said aid after a 1 pause 1 I tho he woman will bo be apt to make inako a scene 1 I suppose oppose they always do though shell bo be queen and rinde in my household I 1 dont liko like scenes or a fuss fees send bond her to mo me today to day it possible load morning mornin tf mr 1 balkner sat stunned holding his aich ell lug ing bead in m his bands if ho could booty dlo then and there and got boutot out of it aill oil t artille A full melodious voice roused I 1 jim 1 jerry says you sent BODI for me mom bomster ster does you v tint any tiling thing 11 did not jorry jerry tell youl I 1 stam moored her master no asir air bo be jett jest you wan tod me 1 nor or voice was ivaa getting tram tremulous ulous with fes fear 11 well yon see ive been losing every thing ot at ca cards rdse how stiff his lips berol colonel lowry wants a housekeeper and adil my good liza ou must RO to him for aw hilo ob rn have ou back of course in a very I 1 few months a very few if it taken t every cent I 1 have you see atit a debt of honor boner and I 1 havo hao to lot let you RO go for a short I 1 I 1 11 loov arter dial you play me olt oil tat al a gamo game of bardsl card clard sIG sl she asked stra bagely makei well thata shall about it dont make a faiss my good liza and disturb your mis tress I 1 irk m ruined I 1 tell you still and I 1 would 11 ha mo had an and perhaps not to as kind a master as colonel lowry you pined mo me olt off she aho went on in the I 1 same monotonous oice ionic nio wot has hall tended 3 or babies in ill and lit in lice itil and bussed dem dadi at ilia dis mo yet wot has yer ratio in illness still and took no ito rest nor sleep till sho she got well you played mo me ot off lio ile 1 1 nasa as a stono itono or a stick and you tears me from busan and cbill chil luns una tint dat I 1 loves as you loves cr own 0 blessed lord loidl ill tier valle rising rl siuKin it passionate agony A and it her hands uplifted clfo jed tit axt mo me and ilia dis man my manster I 1 lins has worked forslin fur him early carly anil and late into I 1 ions given my strength and iny any heart t to a serbo gitil slid and bin hi and ho be tears me front from my lambly fallibly sells fuel iao sells plot mot housmer sou soils mo lice vallee roso rose to a holh shrill shriek avid ami mrs Falli I 1 koer aroused and terrified ran into inlo ti iho 10 room in fit tier elress whit is tile matter john ill I 1 suo orica what is tho the mutter cantler ach wilhM mauna iuni loral liyan the woman lad had fallen on hor r knees her bet wild eyes raised t to I 1 iles done lost mo me at cards honey f sob she a said with a shrill wild laugh moro more terrible than tears iso to bo be soot aw avo ay 37 front from you all from my peter and my ottlo chillios chil luos to cunnea lowres lowrys Low rys sail and I 1 it como come b back ack no more then as all it tho the words on en yoked joked somo some memory bryin in tier her poor craick brain she aang agalou aloud d io in tier her beautiful pathetic vote boico I 1 it fishery come bark ill nebular como back bach I 1 ril como O baan baal no more nes my cross crois my mr crown is fi woo iron and ill como coma back no more she sh 0 does not know what she pays sho she Is crazy mrs exclaimed 11 john it ilis is not ft not bent his head la IQ tho the deepest bu humiliation milla tion god forgive me margaret it in ili true she belongs to colonel lowry to the day of his death mr balkner never f forgot t iho he look of horror and i with which his n cuifo afo looked at him she simi hill I 1 be bought back bach she can not nol for wo are ruined ruined I 1 hale data me mat MAI caret for it il is my work ill 1 I 1 u ill all go 90 10 lo colonel lowry lowra myself continued mm arx falkner FAlk ncr anh le callog ilia words 1 I will kneel to him for maum it sum liza lie is fa a and ha be never refuse roe a poor mount amini liza her beautiful pity loff fig eyes str streaming earning with tears as she elo put pul hor her arms around tile woman neck she aho did not notice her mistress mh trees caress sho she stood lood with antti her oye eyes fixed on vacancy now and than bursting bu rating into of lymna hymns they laid tier on oil her bed and call an that day and tho the next her gentle mistress sat basiao her five shook to her brain bad been so BO sudden still anil it dreadful that it 11 never recovered rho be was flavor lo 10 talent and A it afir a lanka she ho know those around bor bar but she aho was almost hil idiotic otoo and ana tho the past pant was to bior or an a it if it hall never been colonel lowry lot lost 1119 housekeeper andl and mr WAS reduced to tho life ergo c f poverty by ills gamo pimo of cards he lost lol met ahin th manor however bolever ile lost his slid and his hi own self respect the of tho the idiotic old was VM a perpetual reminder of liis ilia sin never touched a caril card again but to his dang day he could not free himself front the consequences consequence of that one night a folly mans D bidann in all I 1 cool companion pantel |