"Well, I wouldn't want to be the other fellow, Colonel; I'd be in all kinds of a panic; it takes nerve for a job like this." "It's a shocking circumstance," said the colonel.
"I wonder if it paid!" speculated the gambler.

"And I wonder who'll get what he leaves.

Has he any family or relatives ?" "No, not so far as any one knows.

He came here many years ago, a close-mouthed Scotchman, who never had any intimates, never married, and never spoke of his private affairs." There was a slight commotion at the door.

They could hear Shrimplin's agitated voice, and a moment later two men, chance passers-by with whom he had been speaking, shook themselves free of the little lamplighter and entered the room.