[The Man From Glengarry by Ralph Connor]@TWC D-Link bookThe Man From Glengarry CHAPTER XIX 16/16
The lieutenant's second hundred with a part of Harry's and Mr.Sims's passed into Ranald's possession. Again De Lacy challenged to play. "No," said Ranald, "I have done." He put back into his linen bag his one hundred dollars, counted out two hundred, and gave it to LeNoir, saying: "That is Rouleau's," and threw the rest upon the table.
"I want no man's money," he said, "that I do not earn." The lieutenant sprang to his feet. "Hold!" he cried, "you forget, there is something else!" "No," said Ranald, as Harry and Mr.Sims put themselves in De Lacy's way, "there is nothing else to-night; another day, and any day you wish, you can have the other game," and with that he passed out of the room..
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