Perhaps my fall has been hard enough not to tempt me to go on with my sort of luck.

Suppose I decline!" "You don't understand me," said Dunwody, looking him fair in the face.

"I said that your stake can easily be equal with this on the table.

I'll play you just two out of three jack-pots between the two of us.

You see my stake." "But mine ?" "You can make it even by writing one name--and correctly--here on a piece of paper.