Art. 5. The loser on each night shall have the right of choosing on the following day any game he may elect to play from amongst the well-known games at cards, or he may even select any other game or bet in lieu of cards.
Art. 6. On no pretext whatever shall the stakes exceed fifty louis per diem. It is, therefore, perfectly understood that three hundred parties of 1,000 francs each are to be played Within the space of three hundred days.
Art. 7. The two adversaries shall have the right of fixing, by mutual agreement, the hour when play is to commence; but, should they not agree, the loser shall decide. He may choose the very moment which will suit him best, and may even, in case of need, awake his adversary, should the latter summon sleep to aid him in evading his engagement.
Art. 8. The loser shall also have the right of naming the place, whether it be railway carriage, bridge of a steamer, tent, lake, river, plain, mountain, or desert. At a given signal, his adversary shall be bound to follow him into the shade, the sun, or the water, to the mast-head, or the summit of a mountain-peak.
Art. 9. On the 301st day the account shall be made up. If M. de Morin, after having deducted the ninety thousand francs due to him this day, is the loser, he undertakes to hand over to his adversary a cheque on some banker in Paris, and M. Delange will at once be at liberty to return to France. If, on the other hand, the latter is still in his debt, he will be at liberty to frame a fresh contract for one, two, or three hundred days, at his option, under the conditions already set forth.
Given under our hands at Paris this tenth day of September, one thousand eight-hundred and seventy-two.
As soon as the various clauses of this contract had been committed to paper, M. de Morin said to the Doctor—
"You remember exactly what we have just written?"
"Perfectly."
"And you are quite sure of not forgetting it?"