"They'll club the Grenfell Consols down quite flat." "Until settling day.

Then, when the other people have to deliver, they can't get the stock.

We'll shove the prices up on them to anything we like." Wannop gazed at him in exultation, but presently he asked a disconnected question.
"Why are you doing all this ?" "For money, for one thing," said Stirling, with a little flush in his face.

"For another, because I've been sweated and bluffed and bullied by people of the kind you're up against, and now I feel it's 'most a duty to strike back." He clenched a big, hard hand.

"I've watched my wife scrubbing and baking and patching my clothes in the old black days when I lived in a three-roomed shack because I was bluffed out of half my earnings by people who sent their daughters to Europe every year.