I read it in a magazine.

Though comparatively modern, it promises soon to become as customary as the much-to-be-regretted pistols for two and coffee for four.

I hold the lighters thus, and you draw.

Whoever draws or keeps the short one is pledged to leave this world within four months, or shall we say five, on account of the pheasant shooting?
Five be it.

Is it agreed?
Just so! Will you draw ?" A swift spasm passed over Hugh's face, and a tiger glint leaped into Lord Newhaven's eyes, fixed intently upon him.
There was a brief second in which Hugh's mind wavered, as the flame of a candle wavers in a sudden draught.