Show BOGUS NOTE BRINGS LUCK player at monte carlo goes broke and regains cah in lir manner paris having lost every cent of his ready money at the gaming tables an english visitor at monte carlo wired a pathetic appeal for help to a friend in england two days later he received a letter addressed in the friend s handwriting which on being opened revealed a five pound note without pausing to read the letter the plunger hastened to ciro s the fa restaurant in the galerie charles III and changed his fiver into french money from ciros he went straight into the casino where experiencing an extraordinary run of luck he not merely retrieved all his previous lo 10 ses but gained a bial increase in the bargain dearv of play he retired with a few cronies to ciro s again to cele brate the occasion the usually genial M ciro met him at the door of his establishment with a flood of re broache pro ache and the five po ind note was bad he waved it angrily in the plunger s face mais it was false this five pound note tiie plunder took ulav fiver and zed it caret illy it was one of the sham bank notes issued by the late sir augustus harris and bearing on their face an advertise ment of the drury lane pantomime the english friend himself as broke as the plunger had posted him the flagrantly worthless note as a joke a joke which had the plunger taken the trouble to examine the alver or read its covering letter he wo lid have seen only too clearly him self it was fortunate that he did not do so he merely paid ciro his five po n Is and inviting the pacified r to share in the cham pretended that the whole affair was an intentional |