The gamblers

WILLIAM LE QUEUX
Author of Of Royal Blood, The Under Secretary, The Seven Secrets, etc.
London: HUTCHINSON & CO. Paternoster Row
CONTENTS
Chapter

THE GAMBLERS
No. I dare not reveal anything here, lest I may be misjudged.
The narrative is, to say the least, a strange one; so strange, indeed, that had I not been one of the actual persons concerned in it I would never have believed such things were possible.
Yet these chapters of an eventful personal history, remarkable though they may appear, nevertheless form an unusual story—a combination of circumstances which will be found startling and curious, idyllic and tragic.