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Sure thing it has," agreed another of the men. "You certainly have been playing
in rotten luck, but when it does change--oh, baby!"
As the five men entered one of the cardrooms several of the inevitable spectators
drew away from the other games and approached their table, for it was a matter
of club gossip that these five played for the largest stakes of any coterie among
the habitues of the card-room.
It was two o'clock in the morning before Bince disgustedly threw his cards upon
the table and rose. There was a nasty expression on his face and in his mind a
thing which he did not dare voice--the final crystallization of a suspicion that he
had long harbored, that his companions had been for months deliberately fleecing
him. Tonight he had lost five thousand dollars, nor was there a man at the table
who did not hold his I. O. U's. for similar amounts.
"I'm through, absolutely through," he said. "I'll be damned if I ever touch another
card."
His companions only smiled wearily, for they knew that to-morrow night he would
be back at the table.
"
How much of old man Compton's money did you get tonight?" asked one of the
four after Bince had left the room.
"About two thousand dollars," was the reply, "which added to what I already hold,
puts Mr. Compton in my debt some seven or eight thousand dollars."
Whereupon they all laughed.
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