Naturally, I told him my story.

He played sympathetic good fellow, and offered to lend me fifty thousand dollars on a demand note.
I did not want to be involved for a cent more than was necessary, and, as I said, I hoped from day to day to make another strike.

I refused to take more than ten thousand.

I remember now that he seemed strangely disappointed." Again Wilbur stopped.

He swept the moisture from his forehead--and his fist, clenched, came down upon the desk.
"You see the game!"-- there was bitter anger in his voice now.