CLEANING UP 100,000 FRANCS 



Robinson — the great shot — ^and said to him : " Got any 

 money ? " 



He gave me his pocket-book saying : "Help yourself," 

 but I only took the two hundred francs that I wanted 

 to pay for the entries. Coming off the ground I met 

 George Cooper, who was making a book on the event. 

 I took 50 to 1 from him to ten louis about myself. 



Before going into the story of how I won I should 

 like to say that fortune never comes singlehanded, for 

 with a little money I went to the rooms that evening 

 and, starting off with three straight roulette bets, w^ent 

 back to the Hermitage Hotel that night and locked up 

 with the cashier a hundred thousand francs. Every 

 word of this is literally correct. I had no money at all 

 before — nothing but jewellery. 



The runners up to me in the Prix du Littoral were 

 Count Filippi and M. Brasseur with twelve out of 

 thirteen. Tliere were sixty-three guns altogether. 

 When I had shot my tenth bird overtures were made 

 to me to divide, one French shooter saying that I could 

 have half the pool but that one of their division w^ould 

 have to take the medal. Several Englishmen present 

 who knew about this came to me and said : " You're 

 the only English-speaking one left in the event, go 

 right through with it. Don't give them a chance of 

 thinking they can beat you ! " And go through with 

 it I did, with the result already known. There were 

 many little expenses in connection with that prize. 

 For instance, fifty francs to the man who picked up 

 the last bird I had shot, and a bill that night of 

 one thousand four hundred francs for dinner. They 

 seemed to have a bottle of champagne to each person 

 with each course, and the out-of-season things some of 

 them asked for and managed to get surprised even 

 those who knew Monte Carlo pretty well. Of course 



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