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The two English visitors, both men of refinement and culture, who had watched the tall, very handsome woman in black, to whom the older man had referred as Madeh the trente-et-quarante rooold, were being staked with a twelve-thousand franc maxiambler, the man or woman who has been seized by the demon of speculation, just as others have been seized by that of drugs or drink Curiously enough woamble than men, and the Administration of the Etablissement will tell you that when a woamble she will become reckless until her last throith the devil

Those who know Monte Carlo, those who have been habitues for twenty years--as the present writer has been--know too well, and have seen too often, the deadly influence of the tables upon the lighter side of woman's nature The smart woambles always discreetly The fashionable cocottes seldoamble at the tables discreetly and make eyes at enerally obtain a "loan" from somebody What matter? When one is at "Monty" one is not in a Wesleyan chapel English o to the Riviera leave their owns And it is strange to see the perfectly respectable Englishwo costumes of the French pseudo-"countesses" at which they have held up their hands in horror when they have seen the those latest "creations" of the Place Vendo hypocrisy more apparent than inside the Casino at Monte Carlo

While the two Englishant world-famous salles-de-jeu "Made quite an extraordinary run of luck

But "Mademoiselle," as the croupiers always called her, was usually lucky She was an experienced, and therefore a careful player When she staked a maximum it was not without very careful calculation upon the chances Mademoiselle ell known to the Ads were sensational, hence she served as an advertisement to the Casino, for her success always induced the uninitiated and unwary to stake heavily, and usually with disastrous results

The green-covered ga next to the end croupier on the left-hand side, was crowded She sat in what is known at Monte as "the Suicide's Chair," for during the past eight years ten men and women had sat in that fatal chair and had afterwards ended their lives abruptly, and been buried in secret in the Suicide's Cemetery