Penny Blood Serial Fiction — page 292: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

; berte THE FEMALE GAMESTERS 275 for she was the possessor of thirty golden sovereigns, — a sum that appeared to her a colossal fortune. ‘“ You will stay and take some supper, Madge?’”’ said the elder sister of the two who presided over that den of infamy. “Not I. You know I never stay to supper,’ responded Madge Somers, and then, in a savage tone, she added, ‘Come and open the door, and let me get away as quick as ever I can.”’ The keeper of the gambling-house was too well accustomed to Madge Somers’s eccentric moods to take any notice of the present one, and she accordingly gave the inveterate female gsamester prompt egress from the place. ECORNICLOOO Ss (CO)