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Talbot attended me: he felt he was in some measure the cause of my being first initiated in this pernicious amusement: and he watched my motions with unceasing anxiety. The game was rouge et noir. I threw a large sum on the red. I won, left the stake, doubled, and won again. The heap of gold had increased to a large size, and still remained to abide the chance of the card.
Did I tell you, she was one of the victims of that demon Le Noir?" "No: but I know it from another source. I know as much, or more of her, perhaps, than you do!" "Ah!" exclaimed Traverse, in surprise. "Yes! I know, for instance, that she is Capitola's mother, the long-lost widow of Eugene Le Noir, the mistress of the Hidden House, and the ghost who drew folks' curtains there at night."
"Matter!" says Charley; "rooked that's all!" "Rooked! That's very extraordinary. I'm winning like anything. Look here!" and I pointed to my pockets, which were almost bursting. "Yes," said he, "I see how it is: you've been winning on twos to one, and I've been losing on threes." "Black's the winning colour to-day, Charley noir; you should have backed noir. Besides, long odds are much too risky.
Among the rest the sum of a thousand dollars was left to his young friend Traverse Rocke, and another thousand to his esteemed neighbor Marah Rocke. Gabriel Le Noir was appointed sole executor of the will, trustee of the property and guardian of the heiress. At the conclusion of the reading Mr. Sauter folded the document and laid it upon the table.
It was Wan Lee, Old Pete's bête noir, who found them there and ran shouting through the crowd of belated players in the saloon's big room, his pig-tail flying, his almond eyes popping, to upset a table and batter on his master's door and scream that the "bullos" were here, "allesame lone," and that there was blood all spattered on the hind one's rump!
As Terry stood measuring each piece of luggage with his eye, silently apportioning it a place in the car, I felt as I had felt at "Monte" when, at roulette, as many as three of my hard-won five franc pieces might easily go "bang," like the sixpence of another canny Scot. Will it be rouge; will it be noir?... I could never look; and I could not look now.
The priest dropped his book and stood with lifted hands and open mouth and staring eyes as though he had raised a ghost! The two Le Noirs simultaneously sprang forward, astonishment, disappointment and rage contending in their blanched faces. "Who are you, girl?" exclaimed Colonel Le Noir. "Capitola Black, your honor's glory!" she replied, making a deep curtsey.
The third, and inner, apartment was much larger than either of the others, and in this room there was a table for rouge et noir. The door of this inner apartment was papered so as to appear when closed like a portion of the wall. A heavy picture was securely fastened upon this papered surface, and the door was lined with iron.
Colonel Le Noir laughed scornfully, saying: "And do any of you imagine this will serve your purposes? Ha, ha! The most that it can do will be to delay my journey for a few hours until the decision of the judge, which will only serve to confirm my authority beyond all future possibility of questioning." "We will see to that," said Doctor Williams.
"It is a bargain," said each of the conspirators, in a breath, as they shook hands and parted Le Noir to his home and Black Donald to join his comrades' revelry. Endearing! endearing! Why so endearing Are those soft shining eyes, Through their silk fringe peering? They love thee! they love thee! Deeply, sincerely; And more than aught else on earth Thou lovest them dearly! Motherwell.
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