Four millions would be required to start the ball rolling; the "bear" movement in the beginning would demand margins.

Once under headway, it would take care of itself.
It would succeed like a barrel downhill.
Storri did not protest the suggestion of the old gray buccaneer that four millions be contributed to form a working capital for the pool.

His share of a half-million meant fifty thousand more dollars than Storri at the time possessed, but he did not propose to have the others discover the fact.

Somehow he would scrape together those fifty thousand; his note might do.

Being, like every savage, a congenital gambler, Storri went into the pool with zest as well as confidence, and rejoiced in speculation that offered chances wide enough to employ his last dollar in the stake.