He, nevertheless, returned to the tables, where he again found success awaiting him.

Again and again he put his money on a happy number, and so steady a run of luck began at last to attract attention.

The rumor of it spread through the rooms, and the crowd about the roulette received a large contingent of spectators.

Bernard felt that they were looking more or less eagerly for a turn of the tide; but he was in the humor for disappointing them, and he left the place, while his luck was still running high, with ten thousand francs in his pocket.
It was very late when he returned to the inn--so late that he forbore to knock at Gordon's door.

But though he betook himself to his own quarters, he was far from finding, or even seeking, immediate rest.