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Rh came back along the rail, as the two hurried forward together. "Two hundred and forty-three. High field wins!"

"Good luck! Congratulations!" the girl cried. "You have won!"

"Good luck, yes," Preston agreed. "Still I am glad that I won on 'field' rather than on just a single number—after hearing what my 'bunkie' already fears for me."

"Why?"

"Oh, he was telling me last night about a passage he made once when the pools were running very high—and they are running high enough upon this. Well, there was a fellow aboard who was a clairvoyant, and he won a total of thousands of dollars upon pool after pool by buying just a single number each night—that is, he did until the captain heard of it and called his officers together and told them that if he heard of any more such unerring clairvoyance, the ship would be shy some officers."

"When was that?"

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