How much was it worth?
We knew not, we were gambling in the dark; but Trent knew, and Bellairs; and we could only watch and judge.
By this time neither Pinkerton nor I were of sound mind.

Pinkerton was beside himself, his eyes like lamps.

I shook in every member.

To any stranger entering (say) in the course of the fifteenth thousand, we should probably have cut a poorer figure than Bellairs himself.

But we did not pause; and the crowd watched us, now in silence, now with a buzz of whispers.
Seventeen thousand had been reached, when Douglas B.Longhurst, forcing his way into the opposite row of faces, conspicuously and repeatedly shook his head at Jim.