A GAMBLING STORY.

Grey River Argus, Volume XXXV, Issue 6008, 11 October 1887, Page 4

A GAMBLING STORY.

A well-known American gentleman tells this story : — " List summer I took a run over to Europe, and had a good opportunity of harning how gambling confederates work together. One of the passengers was a well-dressed young man who said he was a member of the Board of Trade of Chicago. There were other Chicago people on board, and they did not know him, but he talked so glibly of well-known Chicago business men, and was such a good fellow general'y, that everybody thought he was all right. He was soon on good terms with everybody, with a single exception, and this was n middle-aged doctor from some Western ci'y. I never learned what their quarrel was about, but they never spoke and eyed etch other with great coldness. The Chicago man was always ready for any game of cards, and when he lost everybody knew it, as he talked so much about i';. I noticed after a time that his losings was only in small games, and when the stakes were high he generally won. The doctoj never played, he did not approve of g.imblins;, bat he liked to look on. On the third or fourth day out he was standing behind the broker's chair when the latter

threw down his cards angrily, jumped to his feet, and addressing the doctor, asked him not to look over, it made him nervous and brought bad lusk. The doctor apologised, and after that kept on the other side of the table. This collision intensified the feeling, and I often Baw them exchange bitter glances. We were fearful at times that they might come to blows. After that the broker had a great run of good luck, and as the game was a heavy one, he won several hundred pounds. I was up late on the night before we reached Liverpool, and, while strolling along the deck, found the broker and the doctor in close conversation in a dark corner. They separated hastily when they saw they were Been. This started a suspicion in my mind, and when three days later I aaw them eating dinner together in a chop house in London the whole thing was plain. They had been working together, and by a system of signals had won the money of other players.".