So pleasantly did the place affect Dyck's spirits that, as he sat down in the room which had often housed worse men than himself, he gave a sigh of relief.
They played cards, and Dyck won.

He won five times what he had lost at the club.

This made him companionable.
"It's a poor business-cards," he said at last.

"It puts one up in the clouds and down in the ditch all at the same time.

I tell you this, Boyne--I'm going to stop.