"You're rather lucky to get it, in a way," he said. "I've just been taking a chance at freeze-out, and if I'd lost I guess it would have been up to me to fork over the bracelet as part payment."
Rosalind made no pretense of being startled at the idea. She knew he was capable of no such infamy, no matter what he might be.
"I saw what happened," she remarked.
"Oh, did you?"
"I saw you steal ten thousand dollars."
The boatman studied her quizzically.
"And never made a move to stop me," he commented.
She winced, but decided to ignore the implication.
"I didn't steal it, ma'am," he added. "Poker's a perfectly fair game. I didn't stack the cards; I didn't shove a cold deck at him."
"Fair! When he didn't know the first principles of it?"