Chapter 20—The Caves of Kentucky
The health of the fifth player was now thoroughly established. The second throw of twelve, by double six, was most fortunate for her, as it sent her to Kentucky, which was only a few hundred miles away, and occupied the thirty-eighth square of the board. Lizzie Wag had in two throws passed over more than half the sixty-three squares. And therefore we shall not be surprised at Jovita Foley triumphantly waving the yellow flag assigned to her friend, and seeing it already planted on the millions of William J. Hypperbone.
On the 23rd Lizzie Wag and Jovita Foley had hastened to leave Milwaukee, so as not to be encountered by the mysterious XKZ, which would have compelled them to pay a fine, give up their place to the seventh competitor, and then begin the game
