One more.

Stand by me for one more try, will you?
If we win I'll quit." The little ball clicked even as she nodded, and the croupier, paying out on a few small stacks here and there, raked all the rest solemnly into the receiving orifice, while murmurs of sympathetic dissatisfaction went up here and there.
"How much did they have on the board ?" asked Miss Lanman of McKibben, in surprise.

"It must have been a great deal, wasn't it ?" "Oh, two thousand dollars, perhaps.

That isn't so high here, though.
People do plunge for as much as eight or ten thousand.

It all depends." McKibben was in a belittling, depreciating mood.
"Oh yes, but not often, surely." "For the love of heavens, Polk!" exclaimed Rhees Grier, coming up and plucking at his sleeve; "if you want to give your money away give it to me.