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"I'll let you have just a hundred. If you lose that, you'll have to quit tonight. I don't want to see you lose the car.'

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She gave him the money in chips after he signed a note promising to pay it back in a week's time. He promptly lost the hundred dollars and it went so quickly that he had put his last dollar up before he knew it.

She began to shake her head negatively as he started to ask for more money. "I cannot. You promised to quit if you lost and you have."

"But my luck will change," he protested.

"I'm sorry Martin. I can only loan you what you can repay, and you only have a week. If I let you have another hundred you couldn't pay it.

"I'll sell you the car then," he exclaimed. "I own it outright and I'll sell it to you. I just can't quit this far behind."

"Where is it Martin?" When he said "outside," she asked one of the other women workers to take over her job for a few minutes, and fol- lowed him outside. She looked over the nice car and they walked back inside to get out of the cold. In the lobby of the place which was a large dwelling house, she stopped to talk with him. "Come back to my office. and let's talk some more. I don't know what to do about you.”

They entered a comfortable office, furnished with a large desk, the usual equipment and several chairs. He sat at one and she sat behind the desk. "What if I bought your car Martin, and you lost all the money? What would you do then? Don't you have to have a way to work, and back to where you live?"

"I'm willing to take that chance," he said. "I've lost too much not to try and get it back."

They talked about where he roomed, his work and once as he mo- tioned, she saw the rope marks on his wrist. She said nothing about it, but finally agreed to pay him $900 more for the car with the stipulation that he could buy it back for $1000.00 any time within the next six months.

When he went to the gaming table this time it was with $5.00 chips. By four in the morning he had worn himself out and had less than

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