"The Englishman is overflowing with pistoles.

Good Lord, try one throw! One throw is soon made!" "And if I lose ?" "You will win." "But if I lose ?" "Well, you will surrender the harnesses." "Have with you for one throw!" said d'Artagnan.
Athos went in quest of the Englishman, whom he found in the stable, examining the harnesses with a greedy eye.

The opportunity was good.

He proposed the conditions--the two harnesses, either against one horse or a hundred pistoles.

The Englishman calculated fast; the two harnesses were worth three hundred pistoles.