"You risked a lot of money.

Are you satisfied ?" "You bet, Chief.

I come by these shares honestly now." He picked up the silver dollar from the floor, and was about to put it in his pocket.
"Wait--that's my dollar," said Ingolby.
"By gracious, so it is!" said Jowett, and handed it over reluctantly.
Ingolby pocketed it with satisfaction.
Neither dwelt on the humour of the situation.

They were only concerned for the rules of the game, and both were gamesters in their way.
After a few brief instructions to Jowett, and a message for Osterhaut concerning a suit of workman's clothes, Ingolby left his offices and walked down the main street of the town with his normal rapidity, responding cheerfully to the passers-by, but not encouraging evident desire for talk with him.

Men half-started forward to him, but he held them back with a restraining eye.