I
Relapsed In A Vigorous Manner - A Whole-Souled, Boisterous Manner.
People Halfway Up The Deck Heard Me Relapsing, And I Will Warrant
Some Of Them Were Fooled Too - They Thought I Was Seasick.
It was due to my attack of climate fever that I missed the most
exciting thing which happened on the voyage.
I refer to the
incident of the professional gamblers and the youth from Jersey
City. From the very first there was one passenger who had been
picked out by all the knowing passengers as a professional gambler;
for he was the very spit-and-image of a professional gambler as
we have learned to know him in story books. Did he not dress in
plain black, without any jewelry? He certainly did. Did he not
have those long, slender, flexible fingers? Such was, indeed, the
correct description of those fingers. Was not his eye a keen
steely-blue eye that seemed to have the power of looking right
through you? Steely-blue was the right word, all right. Well,
then, what more could you ask?
Behind his back sinister yet fascinating rumors circulated. He
was the brilliant but unscrupulous scion of a haughty house in
England. He had taken a first degree at Oxford, over there, and
the third one at police headquarters, over here. Women simply
could not resist him. Let him make up his mind to win a woman and
she was a gone gosling. His picture was to be found in rogues'
galleries and ladies' lockets.
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