The Adventures of Sally

e could without the assistance of her contemplated remarks: for she had seen nothing of him all day and in another hour she would have left Roville

aving uplifted him. Like so many alert and active-minded girls, she possessed in a great degree the quality of interesting herself in-or, as her brother Fillmore preferred to put it, messing about with-the private affairs of others. Ginger had impressed her as

n which is the haunt of the earnest gambler who means business; and it was plain to Sally directly she arrived that Ginger Kemp not only meant business but was getting results. Ginger was going extremely st

scholar, gathered that he was startled and gratified. The entire crowd seemed to be startled and gratified. There is undoubtedly a certain al

d to a spot where the pressure of the crowd was less acute, was now able to see Ginger's face, and as she saw it she gave an involuntary laugh

lette, and if she had guffawed in a cathedral she could not have caused a more pained consternation. The earnest worshippers gazed at her with shocked eyes, and Ginger, turning with a start, saw her and jumped up. As he did so, the ball fell with a rattling click into a red compartment of the wheel; and, as it ceased to re

hed in the eyes of the crowd as a pariah. There was universal regret that he had decided to call it a day. It was to the spectators as though a star had suddenly walked off the stage in th

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congregation of which Sally had just ceased to be a member.

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d official, who was regarding their tête-à-tête with the indulgent eye of one who