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"Point number one," he interrupted quietly, "utterly missed by the police. George Higgins in his deposition stated that at the most animated stage of Lavender's conversation with Lord Arthur, and when the bookmaker's tone of voice became loud and threatening, a voice from the top of the steps interrupted that conversation, saying: 'Your tea is getting cold." "Yes but " she argued.
One wretch goes under, but the stock of human folly is unlimited, and the shoal of gudgeons moves steadily into the bookmaker's net. One betting-agent in France receives some five thousand letters and telegrams per day, and all this huge correspondence comes from persons who never take the trouble to see a race, but who are bitten with the gambler's fever.
"Obviously, therefore, something must have happened in between to alter the bookmaker's frame of mind. Well! What had happened? Think over all the evidence, and you will see that one thing only had occurred in the interval, namely, Lady Arthur's advent into the room. "In order to go into the smoking-room she must have crossed the hall; she must have seen Lavender.
"If there's anythin' doin', I'm up against it here," he muttered to himself. "What's Lauzanne's price?" he asked, in an indifferent voice, for the bookmaker's assistant was busy changing the figures on his list. Faust pretended not to hear him. "Sure thing!" whispered Lewis to himself. Then aloud he repeated the question, touching the bookmaker on the elbow. The Cherub smiled blandly.
Stack's tips and Ketley's omens was all the same as far as I was concerned. It's a poor business when you're out of luck." "It is giving way to fancy that does for the backers. The bookmaker's advantage is that he bets on principle and not on fancy." Old John told how unlucky he had been in business.
"All right, I'll use his filly and make it up to him, somehow." And soon after he gave her his blessing, received a kiss, and left her for his bookmaker's, the Iseeum Club, and Victoria station. Mrs.
"All right, I'll use his filly and make it up to him, somehow." And soon after he gave her his blessing, received a kiss, and left her for his bookmaker's, the Iseeum Club, and Victoria station. Mrs.
He had drunk his beer and shaken for his round of drinks with the boys, had taken the girl away from a young butcher, had fought and conquered the bookmaker's clerk who tried to take away the milliner's apprentice from him, and had gone home, when the day was done, with his head buried on that soft curve of the feminine shoulder which was made to receive tired male heads.
There was delay over the cashing in; being late, they found a line of Lauzanne men in front of them at the bookmaker's stand. When Mortimer returned to the lawn with eleven hundred dollars in his pocket Alan Porter had gone.
That day Louis switched from the narrow-countered bakery-lunch route to regular standard-gauge restaurants; he ordered clothes like a bookmaker's bride and he sent a cubic foot of violets to Miss Harris. At dinner-time he patronized Mr. Gross so tantalizingly that the latter threatened to pull his nose out until it resembled a yard of garden hose.
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