He sought his pillow without disturbing her, and lay for a long time with his thoughts busy among golden fancies.

In a few hours he had won three hundred dollars, and that from a player of no common skill.
"Yes, yes, Carlton said true.

I play well." Over and over did Ellis repeat this, as he lay with his mind too much excited for sleep.
Wearied nature yielded at last.

His dreams repeated the incidents of the evening, and reconstructed them into new and varied forms.

When he awoke, at day-dawn, from his restless slumber, it took but a short time for his thoughts to arrange themselves into a purpose, and that purpose was to seek out Carlton as the first business of the day, and win back the evidence of debt that he had against him.
The meeting of Ellis and his wife at the breakfast-table had less of coldness and reserve in it than their meeting at tea-time.