The story
“Richard Marcus, a young man who lives by his wits at Monte Carlo, notices at the roulette wheel a young girl, one plainly never before in such a place. She wins, and leaves the table. Marcus follows her. Outside, Alice Brownell is met by Eulalie Perdue, one of Marcus’s confederates. She confides to her her story. She was on her way with a nun from her convent school in France to Genoa, to meet her parents, when she left the railway carriage at Monte Carlo to buy some flowers. The train had gone off and left her. She had not enough money to buy a ticket to Genoa, but, happening to hear a woman telling a friend that she had ‘won enough to take her to Egypt,’ she made inquiries and found her way to the famous Casino.
“Now she had enough money and more to get her to Genoa, and she must catch the next train. Eulalie tells Alice that the last train to Italy is gone for the night and persuades her to accompany her home. A little later, Marcus turns up at Eulalie’s apartments. He brings a bogus telegram, purporting to be from Alice’s father, placing her in his care. Eulalie, supposing she is wise to his intentions, does not demur when the gamester takes the girl away with him. In a short time, he returns alone. He is questioned about his victim. And then comes a surprising revelation. Marcus tells his associates that he has put Alice aboard the Genoa train and wired her father to meet her. ‘And I hope some decent man would do the same for my young sister,’ he added, ‘if ever she got into such a fix.’”
Summary from Reel Life · 19 June 1915
