Shall we stop ?" "By Heaven! no," shouted Marnham, to which Anscombe replied that if it was wished, he would play another hand, but no more.
"All right," said Marnham, "but let it be for double or quits." He spoke quite quietly and seemed suddenly to have grown sober.
Now I think that Rodd made up his mind that he really was acting and that he really had that card up his sleeve.

At any rate he did not object.

I, however, was of a different opinion, having often seen drunken men succumb to an access of sobriety under the stress of excitement and remarked that it did not last long.
"Do you really mean that ?" I said, speaking for the first time and addressing myself to the doctor.

"I don't quite know what the sum involved is, but it must be large." "Of course," he answered.
Then remembering that at the worst Anscombe stood to lose nothing, I shrugged my shoulders and held my tongue.

It was Marnham's deal, and although he was somewhat in the shadow of the hanging lamp and the candles had guttered out, I distinctly saw him play some hocus-pocus with the cards, but in the circumstances made no protest.