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Most of these punchers would go back penniless to another month or two of hard and reckless riding. But they would go gayly, without regret, the sunshine of irrepressible boyhood in their hearts. The rattle of chips, the sound of laughter, the murmur of conversation, the even voice of the croupier at the roulette table, filled the hall.
"Oui, Madame," was the croupier's polite reply. "No single stake must exceed four thousand florins. That is the regulation." "Then there is nothing else for it. We must risk in gulden." "Le jeu est fait!" the croupier called. The wheel revolved, and stopped at thirty. We had lost! "Again, again, again! Stake again!" shouted the old lady.
She arrived just in time to hear the croupier asking whom the louis on seventeen belonged to. The number had turned up again. This time she brought the thirty-six louis to the stranger. "Dear me," said he, taking the money. "It is very astonishing. But why did you trouble?" "Because I'm a woman of common sense, I suppose."
As they drove off she gave him her fingers, and he walked back up the steps with the smile upon his lips that comes to a man only once or twice in his lifetime. Violet glanced at her watch with an exclamation of dismayed annoyance. She leaned appealingly towards the croupier. "But one coup more, monsieur," she pleaded. "Indeed your clock is fast." The croupier shook his head.
Without a word passing from his lips, the croupier drew in the cheques and gold-piece, depositing them in his japanned cash-box, I took out my purse, and tried ten dollars upon the queen, I won. I doubled the bet, and lost again.
Fats plucked a sheaf of Martian bank notes from his pocket and tossed them to the croupier. "Cash in his chips." Then his pouchy eyes turned to Gordon. "Get your money, punk, and get out! And stay out!" For a moment, as he began pocketing the bills, Gordon thought he was going to get away that easily.
"You shall see," said I, as I stooped over towards the banker, and whispered, "how far is the betting permitted?" "Fifteen thousand francs," said the croupier, with a look of surprise. "Then be it," said I; "quinze mille francs, rouge."
Decidedly, he was mistaken in thinking he had lost; and he must take this heap of louis, which he did, but neglecting to take, also, his first stake. The game continued. "Thirty-two," called the croupier.
He caught the Frenchman by the wrists, and the young man, more impressed with the strange look in the boy's face than by his physical force, stood still, while the ball rolled and rolled, and clicked merrily, and stopped, and balanced, and then settled into the "seven." "Red, odd, and below," the croupier droned mechanically.
In the old shanty it was laid out, on boards and tressels from end to end. The dignified Mr. Wynn of Dunore took the chair; Captain Armytage was vice, or croupier. As to attendance, the Irish damsel struck work at the most critical juncture, and refused to minister to them in the article of tea.
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