Show KA 0 00 wy i ic 5 1 an pin 7 i alinn it N luceen de tie hem item had hail seen his big last franc note 0 raked in by the baliker and had risen from the roulette tabe ahern be h hid I 1 just lost the remains re main of his email small fortuno fortune he experienced ft a sort of vertigo find slid al at noat n ost fell with reeling brain anil and filling limbs he tottered oner to the leather bench that encircled the lie room ind threw himself on it for some minutes he gazed vaguely abbit this private gimming hell in isaich he hid bid misted the liest best cara cars of 0 hie one by one the plundered beada of the players in the bold glare 0 the th three ree great green shades lie heard tho the soft friction of the gold on oil tho felt anil anti realized leil relli lied zed 13 lose loss his ruin but be he re th tint thit it at home in fit a bureau drav drafter ver acre cre lo 10 arm arni alch had been bravid used by hia his father general de do item in the att ick of then utterly worn ivorn out he slept profoundly lie awoke with parched throat and glancing at the cecel saw thit he had barely slept a alif lour hour an nied to breathe the night air came over oyer hini him tho the hild marked a quarter to I 1 Id midnight night and anti ou on rising and stretching retching tt hia his aims lucien recollected thit it ft is 13 christmas ee eie und and by an ironical freak of manior u lie ile I 1 aw himself hini self a little calill chill I 1 ablin putting his tn in front of the chimney at bedtime just then old dronski kt tho the pole a fixture of the place pl ice in threadbare braided livery cune cline up tip to lucien and mouthed a fw few worda in hia ills dirt beard lend me five franca monsieur here are two days da I 1 he have been out of 0 the th club and 17 11 ins his not turned up once 0 0 blugh at me if it you will but you may cut off my fist list it 17 docs does not c me out in a few mcnutt ahen hell the clock strikes midnight I 1 lucien de tie hem item shrugged his shoulders be he had not tot even eien tho the wherewithal in his pocket to pay the tax enoi n by the bouse house as the lilea yoles tence anre lie passed into the lall put on bis big at hat hie his coat then descended the stairs with the baste haste of a fevered person during the four hours he had been la in doors beary heavy mow snow had fallen and the street a central on one balled in by high houses was mas all white multitudes of col I 1 stars bhone in the blue buck black purged sk the m ann tu walled rapidly revolving desperate thoughts in ills ellid and alts is rocie met e th glnn in ever drawn n to the I 1 astol box in his dressing cise else driever suddenly Sud deni he estopi ed lie ile atas as con feinted by a heart scene on oil a stone bench pl placid icid according cording at to tho the old custom beside the door ot at a palace a little girl of 6 or 7 barely coverd bv by a rag god black frock was ims 9 eting in the tile snow no w she hal aone u to step there in alt spite 0 of the i old in a painful attitude of utter litter carlsness carl ness with her poor litile hell bei I 1 an and shoulder plopped in an angle of 0 the icy ley stone ono on of lur old shoes had alien fallen from the foot hka hubo hurt over and lay in the brow grow luceen de tie hem item felt mechanically for his ills vest pocket and was nag suddenly reminded tint thit a moment before hi hl hat 1 not even found a forg forgotten ottin franc nor a boire tor for the valet however stirred bv by an instinctive pit be approached the little girl and would perhaps have carried her in lila ills arang to rive give her tier a night sli shelter citer hail he not seen sonie something shining in the old shoe is is it lay in the snow lie bent over it was a goll got I 1 louls louts some me berso erso i i i t woman doubtless in pissing by this carlt mas eve had hail seen the shoe in front of 0 the sleeping child ant an I 1 ha hal I 1 remembered the touching legend this generous alms hid bran n riven given so tint thit the little ono one might in the gifts rifts of the holy child and in spite of 0 her din tress retain some hoi hot in lit the bo boldness of provi it are A bills louts it meint me int miny dla of 0 plenty tor for the beggar ind I 1 lickell was about to li waken allen ard tell he to an when ho he heard a voice in hia big ear a drawling thick voice mumbling here aro ate two alys since I 1 have bean u out of the club lott on cm cut oft off mv in fist flat it 17 does doe a not come out when the clock strikes midnight then the m nn min in of 23 13 coming comin 9 oi ot honest stack with a in military it never falling in honor ihs oung ann suddenly conceived cancelled a tho ht tell fell irav to i t wild hster icil monstrous ious ioui deagro assuring u with one glance thit the street was deserted he lie swiftly stooped ad danced a trembling hind an ani I 1 stole the louls louts from tho the old shoe with a wild nun rush ho lie reached the club agian cleared the starra in oie one impetuous rush fitin open the door of the ric ing 1 hall and threw the gold piece on iho the green lust just Ps fie vie clock tho the first stroke of midnight all alton oil seventeen won on anith ith a turn of his ills hani he shoved abo b ag loula lotis ou on red rd jall ho lie left 7 72 1 louls louts on sime color ablin agnin it appeared appt ared tines he be put up lip the doubled I v ith the same luck there esaa aa row rois i t amat heap of eoll goll and anti bank notes in front ot of him and he begin legin leg in frintz illy to sow them br broadcast dast over thoi the table lvery com bl hiti atlon f him the little ivory ball jumping about the divisions of tho the roulette seemed to bo be magnetized by the he gamblers gambler s gaze and a ved ell it ill I 1 10 playa plays he lie had the few thousand fr francs ines his list resource thit th it bt h had hail lost early in tho the evening hy by panting 2 or to luila its at once he i auld bild soon have far more than the jerl tago he be had hail fools coolid d away aay in bis his it isle to 1 p by be had kept 0 bli hoai coat a id the preat pock poc eta were already till roli rolls ol 01 0 bank notta not and gald I 1 sacci he ile DOW had hail to stuff them into ills inside fcc jcck eta bli vest eat and trouser pockets his cigar case bis big and y V cr thing that could hold them he ile at stall ill pla clacil ed he ile still won 1 I 1 a lunatic hi natle ilka 1110 a druel ell danl man he ile threw the gold any anywhere here OB oa the table with disdainful certainly in his feirt a iron was burning he thought only of 0 the child asleep in the snova of the little beggar he had halt robbed she la Is still there of course she ab a must ie te there in a minute when it strikes 11 II swear it iti 1 will leave lure anil and cur her tier home sleeping in roy my arms I 1 mit bring her up love her tier as my child and care for I 1 er ahia always s ilmis ane clock struck I 1 the quarter the half the tile phlek quarters atil an I 1 lucien belll sat it the table k minute betor 2 the binker roe a abruptly and said in i 1 sharp voice I 1 noush for the adly diy gentlemen the bank is e I 1 luceen leaped to his fett roughly he pushed tie tl e 11 aside is 19 they lin lingered vered about him with ith en vidis a a hurrie ily he cleared the stairs ind lid r nn rin in to the stone bench think god hl cr er c cl I 1 she Is still clerel he tie I 1 her li hind ind ah ali how acl I 1 she Is 1 poor little one As he lifted her in his imi the child a heit heir tell fell back limp and aha sho did not nv ihen ilien how children sleep ho he thought pressing her tier to his ills bicart for warmth aud and vaguely anxious he be ats as gibout to kiss her lids to draw hir from this heavy hea slumber when hi lit eav sair with terror that the child a eyes wee h hilt atif caen showing gassy pupils extin guw cd ed and motionless with witt I 1 terrible suspicion I 1 ucley b gushed her tier little lips with his own ihrl no tin breith bre ith came cartie from them 11 hile lucien had been winning a fortune with mill the tile louts stolen from front her this little apgar had it d cd oil at of cold hia ills throat in awful agony he lie tried to cry out and in the effort he awoke aole from a nightmare on the bench at the club where lie had tillen asleep I 1 afore nil enli I 1 and had been mt loft undisturbed turbe I 1 b the s of the old v alet let who had goni gont off on ast last of all at 5 clock ills heart had been touched by b thi poor bankrupt A not nolay ay december daun wis frering through tho tile pines lucien beya out haanel his ills laatch battled then sent to tho the recruiting office is here he enlisted in the I 1 hrat trat african Chass curs eurs lucien dc do hem item Is 1 now a lieutenant ho he lives on oil his ills adaill pay and never toc rocelies elies a card it apt abear eari that ho lie saves something too for not long aro are in lit algiers ho aia w epen seen by a brother officer u hn tin wis is livick liking behind him in a winding street of the itasca elving giving alms to a little span oll I 1 A art 1 r sa III approached THU 1 lierl ish asleep under a door ay the had the indiscretion to look at the money which lucien had ghea to pov poi ert he had put a gold loula in the child a nand hand |