Show I LA A GAMBLER GAMB WITH CHANCE n nOTTO OTTO ro At a little wayside station on the thc Italian Riviera lera a a. man manas was as pacing restlessly up and down The Tito train for tor Monte Carlo had been tn signalled from front San Lorenzo It all nil he muttered Knocking the flirty dirty yellow ash off of the lie end or of iris ills cheap h cl Cigar ar If It It the lie old man inan spotted me yesterday its Jt's J m likely oly T I shall get l th the shunt And then then then- Confound it ho lie repeated more emphatically Just as 1 Ive I've e been put onto a Jolly sure thing too Captain James Harvey OY as he had described himself on the various Continental Continental Con Con- hotel registers bit tho the end of hIs cigar savaged savagely g cr Every penny penn of his sma small capital was embarked ell In the tho venture which had hi ought brought him hotfoot hotfoot hot hot- foot to the great temple of or hazard In the lie Principality of Monaco But if it he had laa to mizzle before ho had fairly started the lice game the tho chance whatever er It might be worth Korth would vanish yanish And Anil surely if anybody could give gie a fellow i ith th the tho tip Up It was Don Jose r On the previous afternoon tho time Captain Caplain Cap- Cap lain tain had caught sight of a 0 face ace in the tho crowd and the apparition had haa startled him The rhe face fae was c little changed from when he had hael last seen it barely four years ngo ago Ills own face fac the thc captain knew had altered considerably In the Interval He Ile looked ten tn years older But that glimpse of his old colonels colonel's leather leather- colored features had haa made him uneasy uncas uneasy un un- cas easy A word from Colonel Howard of or the Queens Queen Queens royal and Captain Tomes James Har Harvey would find the doors of or the Ca Casino closed against him hint When tho the captain took his has seat In Inthe Inthe Inthe the train his nerves were wore a bit jumpy and hi has lI feelings rather rathel mixed Till he was ordered East Bast Harvey Har cst est which was vas Captain Harvey Harvey's s lawful patronymic was simply a beau with a penchant Cor for a pretty face and a brimming beaker But Rut three years after he landed in Bombay omba Harvey West t had tad earned as nM wide a reputation for tricks that were dark 1 and ways wars that were were- vain as tho the famous Chinee I c The clI crisis ls came came one season at Simla A young oung lieutenant In the Loam- Loam r shires who ho had lost Jost heavily to Handt Hand Hantl t t. jj d' d some Romo Har Harvey y as the thc captain was i A 4 familiarly called in fn club circles paid n 2 t his I. 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O U Us U's s by hy the simple of or putting a bullet through his brain The Tho youngsters youngster's father happening happening- to toi j i T be an old oid college chum of the viceroyS vice vice- royS there was a n row 1 i At the tho enquiry which followed J J more than ono one scandal came to light And Und the upshot of or it was that Harvey Harvey- West est was sent down n. got bea beastly r t drunk on the tho way was put under arT ar- ar T 4 Vest rest upon i reaching caching the depot and eventually o was dismissed from the f service for Cor taking bribes from the r. r V natives and conduct unbecoming an 1 and a gentleman Landing at l. l HarvcY- HarvcY West Harvey est became Captain lIane Harvey Har and antI decided that the air of England would hardly agree with him in present circumstances circum circum- stances elected to remain on the tile conj conI con con- j I For some time he had been living an nit I idle life In Genoa Pa Passing through h tho the narrow alley S which runs at al the back of the hotel of Y 1 J the tho Four Nations one one dark winters winter's li night Captain Harvey stumbled over I something which omitted emitted tv it a iter loan a er very human groan wh n he touched tO It A light from a n wax vests esta sufficed to In Indicate the situation A man had been set upon In the tho alley stabbed and left to bleed to death The captain stooped down r the flow of blood bound up tho the mans man's wounds got a 0 sip of brandy down clown his throat threat and partly led partly c carried him hm to his own rooms looms In the Z Via la ia Alessi I 1 i 0 Y The Injured man gave his name as Jose Fernandez a Spaniard from t V Barcelona At the toe end of or a fortnight he wa was wasell a well ell ell enough to get about again and one evening when the they were tak tak- fag ing their coffee at Rot s Jo Jose opened his heart hurt to his preserVer Cr Wo l are both hoU hoUIn In what you rou call the tho same Slime boat boM mon captain he lie said puffing puffing put put- fin fing at a long bla black lt cigar You want Well Yell spose I tell you how to get g-et plenty plenty moro more as ever you yon OU link tink with vitro vare hectic trouble Ha UHn ha Ita Yes I 1 can do o. o It I Is mino secret Captain But a secret which for a I reason Don Jose himself JC can cnn make flake nH e no use of oC except through the hands of another 1 Well YeU ho Ili continued there it is is' is Somebody must ho bo trusted tl and I will trust mon captain He lIe ha hM hams been good to me mc I will bo be good to te him Don Jose lose will tell you his secret and you when you shall have the th l-th the big hig In pocket you pocket you et-you you shall give o him him half hair Oh Oil It will be he vare vane big Ila Ua ha Is it a n bargain I IThe The Tho man it seemed had been heen a 0 croupier at Monte Carlo but bat had ro- ro re recently left Jell According to his own j story he left lert because he ho ha had made malle an ai extraordinary discovery and amI wished I Ito to profit by hy it H. I Briefly what lie he h claimed to have discovered dis ls' ls covered ered was this That at a a. certain table after th the wheel had been IHen spun a ac c certain number of or times on certain days of or tho ho month mouth the ball hall always al a S stopped for a certain number of or turns on a particular range of or numbers And nd what was perhaps still more singular was that the tho same sante thing would happen over o an ascertained average av- av av average c of days say days say from Crom four to 10 six six six- regularly reg evor every month Time The reason of It H Ah Don Jose could only shrug his shoulders He lIt had no explanation to o offer ITer He only onh knew tho the fact fart He Ho made no of understanding it ft He lIe only saw sa w the opportunity offered For two t y years vears ars he had worked that table But It was only for the last few months that his had haa been arrested by time the curious coincidences he oe had mentioned I Gradually Gradual however it hind had dawn dawned d dupon upon him that he had made a dl discovery co ery cry and thel thereupon upon ho had hall begun to tako take careful observations He lIt had hid tested the accuracy of or them repeatedly repeated repeated- I ly and a pla player er following his hl in instructions instructions in- in could wall walk awa away with thousands thousands thou thou- sands with with tens of ot thousands thousands-could thousands could do It not once or 01 twIce luice only but could keep on going it until he was rich beyond beyond be be- yond the tho dreams of avarice a Certain Nothing could be more certain r e tain in in this world of uncertainty It was as FO so o sure that If ie Jo Jose e could work the coup himself he wouldn't let in another But nut he ho had quarrelled with the authorities and show a ahead head nead in Monaco Io To pull it off orr he ho required a partner and the saints s had sent him cl ei Captain Cap Cap- tain Ho How much Would el Captain like to win vin Fifty thousand Seventy Se thousand One hun hundred red thousand It II could be done The The captains captain's eyes brightened and the captains captain's mouth watered as he listened to Don Joses Jose's tale He could could- go JO back to England and take It out of some of or those follows fellows who had cut him hunt In India Of or course counselled Jose It must bo be worked so as to avoid ola sus sus- To rush it would be bc to weaken the chance and imperil tho the profit But worked steadily they might share sharo anything anything anything any any- thing up to a quarter of or a million million- and then sell ell the secret ecret to the administration administration admin admin- after that It H was a queer stor story But nut tho the man who told It was obviously sincere Evidently E he had Stumbled on some strange e secret of or the tables and cap cap- cap I taint tain was was not the man to lot let a chance slip The issues hanging on the coup beIng being being be be- ing what the they were no if the captain turned white when h hi hij found himself rubbing shoulders ith his old colonel coonel in the roulette room I It was the opening da day of r f tho the weeks week's attack on No 4 a table table and and as arranged with whit Don Jose the tho captain had started a 10 loser lr Not till Ull the third da day was he to make an any show sho a as a winner whiner His biggest strokes Indeed were to come oft off on the lute two following days the days the fourth and fifth On th thelast the tho last da day ho he was to limit his winnIngs winning to a n thousand The net result how hov however ever 1 of the sixth days day's play pla accordIng according according accord accord- ing to 10 the Don Jose JOSL be to leave them with 2000 to share shaie But nut would he be he able to stick It out om until the game closed Th The news that a player is winning alwa always brought a n crowd to the table Wo Would til ho no he able ahle even to get admission to today today to- to day when ho presented himself II 1119 thirty minutes' minutes ride was rot not vcr very ery cheerful When hon Captain Harvey Hu was handed ills his admission ticket In exchange fo for his visiting visiting- card he felt relieved It was as the second cia day of his campaign cam cam- JI I n and as he laS pasted passed ell th the tho Ion long Jong doors the captain glanced nervously o round tho the room A fortune was wa within his grasp Great grasp If Great Anthon Anthony to think It all nil depended on that If HI Apparently the face Caco he feared was no not among amon lIw those c present for the furtive look in his eyes e vanished and after aCter I with his ls secret It was aa Joso who mho was wast dependent t on the captain It jt was all nIl very jil IJ V f for r Jo Jose e to talk of of limiting tho the w winnings but argued the captain I Pa WU w when hen you ou see a 0 chance chanc take it m mEach Each day dar mt t bring his ills la last t chance Don Jos jom did not know that Rut But then ho he need not tell toll Don Jose I everything thing And t after an all all ten tIll thou thou- thousand I aau sand R. d would not nol b n a bad price for fOl ns u n nI I s secret cret that was a n white elephant h to aman u a uman I Iman man like Jo Joso o Maria Mara a The captain supped tl well He lIe hail had no mind to go o back t U tf hl his poor lodgings s in the tho wayside Inn Bross is the frontier w Why hy not lIot begin to enjoy himself at once He IIo had big blE arrears ars to pull up Captain Har at the Hotel Suisse e Tho The dal dail dalla report ho ire had promised to send ot n to Don on Jose Joso was olten Wh Why he hc thought of or It It the time captain smile smiled 1 with a small fortune in han hand and Id a big big- fortune in insight insl in insight sl sight hl he hI could afford aug l to smile Next da day dav navin learned that V the colonel colon l liar had left thy ti coast the captain captain captain cap cap- tain Hung flung to the tho winds With Ith all nil the g of ot a no greedy gambler he tiji th thought ht of or nothing but piling up time the trusting to luck for fOl a successful Maue SUe to his venture He lIe pla played 1 on and nl taking oaring maximums and winning er c every overtime Ime The Tho news spread and people flocked Into trite the tho room J Women fawned on the lucky player and men On Only I tiro officials maintained their imperturbable le demeanor But Jut Monsieur lc le fluttered In hm and out t t a a. good deal to toward toward toward to- to ward the end of or ti tlc the a days day's pIa play Such Sucha n a run of or luck IlIck v was s unprecedented Captain C iS s winnin winnings were phenomenal 10 the still small voice which whispered Warning the Iho captain shut his eyes ees i Of or com course so he W vv would uld pa pay Jose his whack whack the the ten thou and ou antl and perhaps tack a bit more moro on to the end cna of It But ut report leport Conf un hint him Who ho was I IDon Don Jose Joso that Captain Harvey e should report epolt to him hint t would ho bo time tine I I enough h to report t III when the game was wasI I finished Ho He was on th the rl right ht side anyway Hed He'd go got the shekels and Jose could wait waiL The captain was fast I getting back all hj his old swa swagger er On the day when the tho captain captain cap cap- tain tale ent entered led the loom rom lie ho found quite a crowd lOWll w waiting wailing r or him plat A scat lad hall been beon reserved ed eel 1 at the at hc ta table ble however und 1111 after a few Cew moments he began to topia play pla Before th croupiers were mere rei relieved re- re hexed i ll h he had 1101 lost When the rooms room clo closed ed fooled up to more than his winnings What hat did it mean mean What could It mean mean He lIe had 1 played lae 1 b by the tho card 1 He lie had followed rW the tho same system which on the tho two t previous days as a's had can carried led everything before it it What hat did it mean j t He Ht wrote to Don Jose Jose smiled when then 11 he read the captains captain's letter leller and ad ls IlcI him to tr try again But alas I Fortune ever er fickle had d deserted debited I him film His winnings melted away even en faster r than they had mounted up He lIe I I sent another letter to Jose Tose and con con- to play while ho be had a coin left But nut no further word came from Genoa The whole thing was In one week ho ha had passed from poverty to affluence another another an nn- other to poverty lo again At tho time end of the game he was left with than less than j I he hc started with In the beginning What could be the meaning of It Jt The day after r he ho was cleaned out he hot got ot a 0 letter from Jose It was dated otel Paris Parts and ran You ask for tor an explanation You shall have one It was not only onTy me ine you Cor forgot ot You forgot the newspapers newspapers news news- papers mon moon ami But nut they did dill not forget forget for for- get you No I T heard all aJl about you OU I from them toem Had you been blen content to follow tollow m my Instructions had you OU even re respected respected respected re- re the tho word you passed me you might have havo won In a 0 twelvemonth twelvemonth twelvemonth twelve twelve- month without exciting suspicion But nut you vou 1 0 took your own and have come what you ou call a cropper You little thought you were helpIng helping help- help Ing InS me to tl a fortune wh when n you were piling up the tho figure for yourself But Dut f you were Yes I sold old m my secret to the i administration to for They rhey had i ithe the table examined after aftel play ceased on tn the third night anti and found the I cylinder In which the wheel spins to be slightly out of gear which threw It at regularly recurring periods somewhat somewhat somewhat some some- I what out of level ol with the extraordinary extraordinary nary result that till the cylinder I re recovered recovered recovered re- re covered which itself which It did usually In about six days the days the ball after the I wheel hal hail been leen spun a certain number num 1 ber her of times always took tool to a certain course a n fact which opportunity had I enabled me carefully to note In two lla days days' plunging you managed to set got some But Put you never sent me word Then I wired to the authorities got |