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.