Underneath the vial was a slip of paper, on which was written,-- "I have staked my highest card--and lost! The game is done." Terror-stricken, Hobson glanced about him, then pausing only long enough to clutch some of the gleaming jewels from the inanimate form, he stealthily withdrew, and, skulking unobserved along the corridors, passed out into the darkness and was gone..