What have you had to drink ?" "How about you, Ramsden?
Will you see this through ?" Jeremy shook his head at me.

I believe he thought for the moment that Grim had gone mad.

He hadn't the experience of Grim that I had, and consequently not the same confidence in Grim's ability to dream, catch the essence of the dream, pin it down and make a fact of it.
"I'll go the limit," said I.
"Well, I'll be damned" laughed Jeremy.

"All right; same here.

I stake a gold-mine and Rammy raises me.