Ellis broke with him sullenly, growling wrathfully under his heavy moustache, and the Dummy had written upon his pad--so hastily and angrily that the words could hardly be read--that he would not play with professional gamblers, men who supported themselves by their winnings.

Damn it! one had to be a gentleman.
Next, Vandover had tried to borrow some money of Charlie Geary.

Geary had told him that he could not afford as much as Vandover needed.

Then Vandover became enraged.

He had long since seen that Geary had practically swindled him out of his block in the Mission, and at that very moment the huge boot and shoe "concern" was completing the factory built upon the ground that Vandover had once owned.