TOD SLOAN 



dropped £350 ready money in half-an-hour. It was 

 so silly of Mr Romano's friends to rush the game so 

 quickly, for had there been some encouragement I 

 suppose that I would just as easily have dropped in the 

 long run (I mean at many sittings) £3500. I didn't 

 tumble to it a bit at the moment, but when I got up 

 from the table and they wanted to give me my revenge 

 at some other game the graft was as clear as daylight. 

 Some of the gentlemen who worked the West End and 

 Continental cities, and who are alive and well, may like 

 to know that they missed that day the smallest in size 

 but yet perhaps one of the biggest mugs about at that 

 time. I only stopped short at thinking I quite knew 

 everything. 



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