He was willing to have Storri think his overthrow due to him and him alone.
It would please him should Storri believe that he, Mr.Harley, had conquered not only the possession of those shares, but of the five hundred thousand dollars which were so painfully collected as Storri's contribution to the pool's four millions.

It would promote Mr.Harley's satisfaction to the superlative; it would make Storri's humiliation complete.

By all means teach Storri that he, Mr.Harley, constructed the ambush into which the pool had sold its blindfold way.

Wherefore, Mr.
Harley with shrug and sneer consented to Storri's charges of betrayal, and intimated his own profitable joy of that treason.

After thirty minutes of triumph, Mr.Harley, mightily restored in his own graces, arose to depart.
"And for a last word, you scoundrel," quoth the loud Mr.Harley, "I told Mrs.Hanway-Harley I would shoot you if you so much as laid hand to my front gate.