Whereupon Mr.Harley closed out his friend at a loss of seven thousand dollars.
Storri knitted his brows when he knew, but offered no comment.

In fact, he treated the affair so lightly that Mr.Harley felt relieved; that latter speculator had been somewhat disturbed in his mind concerning Storri's opinion of what, to give it a best description, evinced niggard distrust of Storri, and cast in negative fashion a slur upon that gentleman.
Mr.Harley was too ready with his belief in Storri's indifference; that the latter, for all his surface stoicism, took a serious, not to say a revengeful, view of the business, found indication on a later painful day.

The experience taught Storri that he might expect neither favor nor generosity from Mr.Harley; and this, considering how in all they must adventure in Credit Magellan Mr.Harley would have him in his power, filled Storri with an angry uneasiness.

He decided that for his own security, if nothing more, he might better bestir himself to gain a counter-grip upon Mr.Harley.And thereupon Storri began to lie in ambush for Mr.Harley; and at a lurking, sprawling warfare that sets gins and dead-falls, and bases itself on surprise, your savage makes a formidable soldier.
Storri, wisely and without price, had one day aided a sugar company in securing Russian foothold in Odessa.

That aid was ground-bait meant to lure the sugar favor.