Excerpt from The Lock and Key Library; Classic Mystery and Detective Stories, Vol. 1 of 10: North Europe; Russian, Swedish, Danish, Hungarian And you did not once allow yourself to be tempted to back the red? Your firmness astonishes me. But what/ do you think of Hermann? Said one of the guests, pointing to a young engineer. He has never had a card in his hand in his life, he has never in his life laid a wager; and yet he sits here till five o'clock in the morning watching our play. Play interests me very much, said Hermann, but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the super uous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."