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CHAPTER
XI. page 44
The following are authentic anecdotes of Fox, as a gambler.
Fox had a gambling debt to pay to Sir John Slade. Finding
himself in cash, after a lucky run at Faro, he sent a
complimentary card to the knight, desiring to discharge the
claim. Sir John no sooner saw the money than he called for pen
and ink, and began to figure. `What now?' cried Fox. `Only
calculating the interest,' replied the other. `Are you so?'
coolly rejoined Charles James, and pocketed the cash, adding--`I
thought it was a _debt of honour_. As you seem to consider it a
trading debt, and as I make it an invariable rule to pay my Jew-
creditors last, you must wait a little longer for your money.'
Fox once played cards with Fitzpatrick at Brookes' from ten
o'clock at night till near six o'clock the next morning--a waiter
standing by to tell them `whose deal it was'--they being too
sleepy to know.
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