Chapter 23—A Challenge and Its Consequences
If anyone appeared less indicated by nature for the forty-seventh square, State of Pennsylvania, for Philadelphia, the chief city of the state, the most important city in the Union after Chicago and New York, it was assuredly this Tom Crabbe, brute by nature and boxer by trade. But instead of Max Real, Harris T. Kymbale, or Lizzie Wag, all capable of admiring the magnificence of this metropolis, it was that stupid being who had been sent there with his trainer. Never could the deceased member of the Eccentric Club have foreseen that.
It could not be helped, however. The dice had spoken in the early hours of the 31st of May. Twelve by six and six had been sent by wire from Chicago to Cincinnati, and the second player had to take measures for imm
