He loved to play Chinese lottery.

Also, in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness--faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.

For to play a system requires money, while the wages of a gardener's helper do not lap over the needs of a wife and numerous progeny.
The Judge was at a meeting of the Raisin Growers' Association, and the boys were busy organizing an athletic club, on the memorable night of Manuel's treachery.

No one saw him and Buck go off through the orchard on what Buck imagined was merely a stroll.

And with the exception of a solitary man, no one saw them arrive at the little flag station known as College Park.