He did not agree with his Chief's view of the situation.

If Garry was born a gambler, he had kept that fact concealed from him and from his wife.
He recalled the conversation he had had with him some weeks before, when he was so enthusiastic over the money he was going to make in the new Warehouse deal.

He had been selected as the architect for the new buildings, and it was quite natural that he should have become interested in the securities of the company.

This threatened calamity was one that might overtake any man.

Get Garry out of this hole and he would stay out; let him sink, and his whole career would be ruined.