Chapter 19—The Green Flag
The green flag was that of Harris T. Kymbale, the flag that was assigned to the fourth player on account of the place this colour occupies in the solar spectrum. The reporter-in-chief of the Tribune was quite satisfied with it. Was it not the colour of hope?
It would have been in very bad taste for him to complain of the lot which had fallen to him as tourist and player. After having been, by the first throw of twelve, sent to New Mexico, his throw of ten, by four and six, had sent him to the twenty-second square, South Carolina, on the coast of the Union, and in particular to Charleston, its metropolis. He had from the 21st of May to the 4th of June to get to South Carolina, and as the journey could be done by railroad all the way after leaving Clifton Station,
