Nine hours afterwards the same two men, with two others--of whom young Lord Grasslough, Dolly Longestaffe's peculiar aversion, was one--were just rising from a card-table in one of the upstairs rooms of the club.

For it was understood that, though the Beargarden was not to be open before three o'clock in the afternoon, the accommodation denied during the day was to be given freely during the night.

No man could get a breakfast at the Beargarden, but suppers at three o'clock in the morning were quite within the rule.

Such a supper, or rather succession of suppering, there had been to-night, various devils and broils and hot toasts having been brought up from time to time first for one and then for another.

But there had been no cessation of gambling since the cards had first been opened about ten o'clock.