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'We trumped him with that identical court-card, Richie. 'Very well. To-morrow, after we have been to my grandfather, you and I part company for good, sir. It costs me too much. 'Dear old Richie, he laughed, gently. 'And now to bye-bye! My blessing on you now and always. He shut his eyes. The morning was sultry with the first rising of the sun. I knew that Ottilia and Janet would be out.
That same evening we had encountered, at an Eighth Avenue ball, a masker whose costume had been designed upon the familiar model of the court-card in question; so much for number two. But Fortune had been almost too kind, and immediately upon this promising beginning she had withdrawn her smiles. For upward of a month nothing whatever had happened.
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