He will be playing a game which he does not understand, and playing it against men who do understand it.

Men who so play always lose.
But he who speculates daily puts himself exactly in the reversed position.

He plays a game which experience teaches him to play well, and he plays generally against men who have no such advantage.

Of course he wins.
All these valuable lessons did Undy Scott teach to Alaric Tudor, and the result was that Alaric agreed to order--for self and partner--a considerable number of shares in the Limehouse Bridge Company.

Easy, very easy, is the slope of hell.
And then in the evening, on this evening and other evenings, on all evenings, they talked over the prospects of the West Cork and Ballydehob branch, and of the Limehouse Bridge, which according to Undy's theory is destined to work quite a revolution in the East-end circles of the metropolis.