Avarice includes some idea of a storekeeping commerce that amasses by buying for one dollar and selling for two.

Storri would have failed at that.

He was rapacious as the pirate is rapacious, and with a gambler's love for the uncertain, he balked at anything whereof the possible profits were cut and dried.
He wanted to win, but he was willing to lose if he must; and above all he distasted the notion of a limit.

Like every wild thing, Storri shied at a fence and loved the wilderness.

While Storri knew nothing of honesty, he preferred his gold on legitimate lines.