The Gamblers

Yet these chapters of an eventful personal history, remarkable though they may appear, nevertheless form an unusual story — a combination of circumstances which will be found startling and curious, idyllic and tragic.Reader, I would confess all, if I dared, but each of us has a skeleton in the cupboard, both you and I, for alas! I am no exception to the general rule prevailing among women.If compelled by a natural instinct to suppress one single fact, I may add that it has little or nothing to do with the circumstances here related. It concerns only myself, and no woman cares to supply food for gossips at her own expense...FROM THE BOOKS.