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. This sugar company made more profit on its stocks
than on its sugar. It was in the habit, with one device or another, of
sending the quotations of its shares up and down like an elevator. In
requital of that Odessa good, the president of the sugar company, the
week after, gave Storri a private hint to sell sugar stock. Storri
responded by placing an order selling ten thousand shares.

Storri took no one into his confidence touching sugar. Going the other
way, he urged Mr. Harley to buy on their mutual account two thousand
shares, assuring him that he had been given word, from sources
absolutely sure, of a coming "bull" movement in the stock.

Mr. Harley, who knew of that Odessa favor, believed. Storri, as further
evidence of faith, gave Mr. Harley a check covering what initial margins
would be required for his half of the purchase; and then to make all
secure, he placed in Mr. Harley's hands two hundred shares of a French
company worth that day fifteen thousand dollars.

"I don't want any argument to exist," laughed Storri, as he gave Mr.