"It ought to come up now soon.
I always make it a rule to double my plays each time.

It gets you back all you've lost, some time or other." He put down two twenties.
"Goodness," she exclaimed, "that will be two hundred! I had forgotten that." Just then the call came for all placements to cease, and Aileen directed her attention to the ball.

It circled and circled in its dizzy way and then suddenly dropped.
"Lost again," commented Lynde.

"Well, now we'll make it eighty," and he threw down four twenties.

"Just for luck we'll put something on thirty-six, and thirteen, and nine." With an easy air he laid one hundred dollars in gold on each number.
Aileen liked his manner.