Instead of leaving the money in his fire-closet, he had taken it with him, a sort of dim idea being in his mind that, possibly, it might be wanted for some such purpose as now contemplated.

So he was all prepared for a trial of his skill; and the trial was made.

To one of the haunts of iniquity before visited in mere reprehensible curiosity, he now repaired with the deliberate purpose of winning money to make up for losses already sustained, and to provide for the next day's payments.

He went in with fifty dollars in his pocket-book; at twelve o'clock he left the place perfectly sober, and the winner of three hundred dollars.

Though often urged to drink, he had, knowing his weakness, firmly declined in every instance.
Cara, he found, as usual on returning home late at night, asleep.