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The croupier began to count Wethers, and Ricardo,

curious to knohose sanised the young girl in the white satin dress and the big

black hat whose nerves had got the better of her a few arden He saw her now clearly, and thought her of an

entrancing loveliness She wasupon her cheeks which she owed to nothing but

her youth Her hair was of a light broith a sheen upon it, her

forehead broad, her eyes dark and wonderfully clear But there was

so

belief that soo, he had already seen her

And this belief grew and haunted hi his brains to fix the place when the croupier finished

his reckoning

"There are two thousand louis in the bank," he cried "Who will

take on the bank for two thousand louis?"

No one, however, illing A fresh bank was put up for sale,

and Wetherht it He

spoke at once to an attendant, and the h the crowd, carried a irl in the black hat She looked towards Wethermill and

smiled; and the smile made her face a miracle of tenderness Then

she disappeared, and in a fewbehind the banker, and she appeared again only a yard

or tay, just behind Wether her

hand into his, shook it chidingly