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Updated: May 19, 2025
"Red wins," said the banker, in the same monotonous tone. "Make your game, gentlemen, while the ball rolls." Why need we follow the fortunes of Ernest on this fatal evening, as he yielded, step by step, to the seduction to which he was now exposed for the first time in his life? Long after Steinfort left the gambling house, he continued to play. His luck turned.
With these words, the captain thrust his arm within that of his companion, and the pair walked off at a rapid rate. After passing through several streets, Steinfort halted, and rang at the door of a stately mansion. It was opened by a servant in handsome livery, and the young gentlemen entered and went up stairs.
But you already seem to have made your way to the good graces of Madame Von Berlingen, the rich widow who resides at this hotel." "Bah! she is forty," answered Ernest, carelessly. "But in fine preservation, and a beauty for all that," said Captain Steinfort. "The Baron Von Dangerfeld was desperately in love with her; but within a few days, the widow seems rather to have cut him.
"And to-morrow, then," continued the hussar, "I am to congratulate you on the command of a company, and salute you as Captain Ernest Walstein." The last speaker was Captain Christian Steinfort, an officer who had seen some two years' service. "Ah! my boy!" continued he, twirling his jet black mustache, "your uniform will be a passport to the smiles of the fair.
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