Another croupier with his rake pulled it off again … and stuck to it.

The day's fun was over.

* * * * *

"What did win?" asked Myra some minutes later, when the fact that we should never see our money again had been brought home to her.

"Zero," said Archie.

I sighed heavily.

"My usual score," I said, "not my highest."

VI.

THE RECORD OF IT

"I shall be glad to see Peter again," said Dahlia, as she folded up her letter from home.