They played till three and Mr. Calder Jones lost a good deal of money,--a good deal of money in a little way, for they never played above ten-shilling points, and no bet was made for more than a pound or two. But Vavasor was the winner, and when he left the room he became the subject of some ill-natured remarks.
"I wonder he likes coming in here," said Grindley, who had himself been the man to invite him to belong to the club, and who had at one time indulged the ambition of an intimacy with George Vavasor.
"I can't understand it," said Calder Jones, who was a little bitter about his money. "Last year he seemed to walk in just when he liked, as though he were one of us."
"He's a bad sort of fellow," said Grindley; "he's so uncommonly dark. I don't know where on earth he gets his money from, He was heir to some small property in the north, but he lost every shilling of that when he was in the wine trade."
"You're wrong there, Grindems," said Maxwell,--making use of a playful nickname which he had invented for his friend. "He made a pot of money at the wine business, and had he stuck to it he would have been a rich man."
"He's lost it all since then, and that place in the north into the bargain."

They played till three, and Mr. Calder Jones lost a good deal of money. Vavasor was the winner, and when he left the room he became the subject of some ill-natured remarks.
"I wonder he likes coming in here," said Grindley, the man who had first invited him to belong to the club, and who had hoped to become his friend.
"I can't understand it," said Calder Jones, a little bitter about his money. "Last year he seemed to walk in just when he liked, as though he were one of us."
"He's a bad sort of fellow," said Grindley; "I don't know where on earth he gets his money from. He was heir to some property in the north, but he lost every shilling in the wine trade."
"You're wrong there, Grindems," said Maxwell. "He made a pot of money at the wine business."
"He's lost it all since then, and that place in the north into the bargain."
