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It one on with very little interruption, and that on the whole Sir Felix Carbury kept his luck There had of course been vicissitudes, but his star had been in the ascendant For soether this had been so continual that Mr Miles Grendall had suggested to his friend Lord Grasslough that there ifts, was, at least, not suspicious, and repudiated the idea 'We'll keep an eye on him,' Miles Grendall had said 'Youto watch any one,' Grasslough had replied Miles 'had watched,' and had watched in vain, and it may as well be said at once that Sir Felix, with all his faults, was not as yet a blackleg Both of them noed Sir Felix a considerable suestaffe, as not present on this occasion Latterly very little ready money had passed hands,--very little in proportion to the suh Sir Felix was still so well in funds as to feel hiht give him

When IOU's have for some time passed freely in such a company as that now assereeable, particularly when that stranger intends to start for San Francisco on the following er should certainly lose, no doubt then he would be regarded as a godsend Such strangers have ready money in their pockets, a portion of which would be felt to descend like a soft shower in a tis in unsecured paper have been going on for a considerable time real bank notes come to have a loveliness which they never possessed before But should the stranger win, then there may arise complications incapable of any cos some Herr Vossner must be called in, whose ters did not arrange themselves comfortably Froet of little papers fell into his possession, many of which were passed to hi, however, a 'G' intended to stand for Grasslough, or an 'N' for Nidderdale, or a wonderful hieroglyphic which was known at the Beargarden to estaffe, the fabricator of which was not present on the occasion