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Presently they rose, and all four walked into the crowded salle-a-e, and the gay croere gossiping mostly of their luck or their bad fortune at the tapis vert At Monte Carlo the talk is always of the run of sequences, the many times the zero-trois has turned up, and of how little one ever wins en plein on thirty-six

To those who visit "Charley's Mount" for the first time all this is as Yiddish, but soon he or she, when initiated into the gaets bitten by the fever and enters into the spirit of the discussions They produce their "records"--printed cards in red and black nu numbers with a pin as they have turned up

The quartette enjoyed a costly but exquisite dinner, chatting and laughing the while

Both men were friends of Lady Ranscomb and frequent visitors to her fine house in Mount Street Hugh's father, a country landowner, had known Sir Richard for many years, while Walter Brock had o in connexion with some charity in which she had been interested

Both were also good friends of Dorise Both were excellent dancers, and Lady Ranscohter to the Grafton, Ciro's, or the Eh's old friend, and he and Dorise having been thrown together a good deal ever since the girl returned fro her education, it was hardly surprising that the pair should have fallen in love with each other

As they sat opposite each other that night, the young fellow gazed into her wonderful blue eyes, yet, alas! with a sinking heart How could they ever marry?

He had about six hundred a year--only just sufficient to live upon in these days His father had never put hi since he left Brasenose, and now on his death he had found that, in order to recover the estate, it was necessary for hiirl for whoood-looking, it was true, but could he sacrifice his happiness; could he ever cut hiet back as surely by right his inheritance?

Yet, after all, as he again rim truth arose in his h she had been so kind to hihter to marry a man as not rich Had not Dorise told hi a certain very wealthy ible bachelor who lived in one of the enerally sought after by hters Inith daughters "on their hands"--are too prone to try and get rid of thehter makes me look so old," as they whisper to their intie