CHAPTER Seventeen.
On A certain Saturday morning two years later Vandover awoke in his room at the Reno House, the room he had now occupied for fifteen months.
One might almost say that he had been expelled from the Lick House.

For a time he had tried to retain his room there with the idea of paying his bills by the money he should win at gambling.

But his bad luck was now become a settled thing--almost invariably he lost.

At last Ellis and the Dummy had refused to play with him, since he was never able to pay them when they won.

They had had a great quarrel.