But you wouldn't--couldn't--and I had to employ Spaulding." "Do you mean you would have married me if you had known the truth at the time ?" "Rather." "And--but--I told you--I became a regular gambler." He could not help smiling.

"I have no fear of your gambling again.

And I don't fancy you were a bit worse than the others who had no gambling blood in them--all the world has that.

Gambling is about the earliest of the vices.

I--if--you wouldn't mind promising--I know you will keep it." "Nothing under heaven would induce me to play again.