"What!" exclaimed Paul.
"Certainly, Mr. Duncan, you have not been gambling," added Grace Arbuckle, looking as sad as though she had lost a dear friend.
"I lost two hundred florins out in that dog-house," replied Ben, who was the wag of the party, and a general favorite.
"What dog-house?" inquired Paul.
"Why, the big one—auf dem Platz."
"Do you mean the Kursaal?" asked Paul.
"Mr. Fetridge calls it a dog-house, in Harper's Hand Book."
"No."
"The cur-house—what's the difference?"
"U in German is pronounced like double o. But you don't mean to say you have been gambling, Ben?" added Paul.