The certificates gradually rose and were unloaded in rising amounts until one hundred was reached, when all the two hundred thousand dollars' worth--two thousand certificates in all--was fed out in small lots.

Stener was satisfied.

Two hundred shares had been carried for him and sold at one hundred, which netted him two thousand dollars.

It was illegitimate gain, unethical; but his conscience was not very much troubled by that.

He had none, truly.