Opposite him sat the Wallachian leader.
The game proceeded and the stakes rose higher and higher.

One after another the losers dropped out, until at last Manasseh and the Wallachian commander were left pitted against each other, a heap of coins and banknotes between them.

Fortune declared for Manasseh, and he swept the accumulated stakes into his pocket.

At this the others looked him more sharply in the face.

"Who is he ?" was asked by one and another.
"Why, you are Manasseh Adorjan!" exclaimed the leader at length, in astonishment.