He came out half an hour later with seven thousand francs in his pocket.

Then he went to see Florentine, paid the five hundred francs which he owed to her, and proposed a supper at the Rocher de Cancale after the theatre.

Returning to his game, along the rue de Sentier, he stopped at Giroudeau's newspaper-office to notify him of the gala.

By six o'clock Philippe had won twenty-five thousand francs, and stopped playing at the end of ten minutes as he had promised himself to do.

That night, by ten o'clock, he had won seventy-five thousand francs.