"It is a shame to take all a comrade's money as we are doing to-day.

I have never seen such a thing.
If it be Satan's contriving, I will not help him further." He rose and sat apart.

Anton joined him.

Both looked on in silence at the desperate way in which gold was flung about.
"I too have had enough of it," said the doctor, showing a thick bundle of matches in his hand.

"This is a singular evening; since I have known cards, such a case as this has never come within my experience." Once more Eugene sprang to the side-table where the matches lay, but Bolling seized the whole box and flung them into the street.