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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Options by O. Henry: a man shaking dice in a box to fill aces and sixes.
"'He says,' says McClintock, 'that the people not know that gold-dust
will buy their things. The women very mad. The Grand Yacuma tell
them it no good but for keep to make bad spirits keep away.'
"'You can't keep bad spirits away from money,' says I.
"'They say,' goes on McClintock, 'the Yacuma fool them. They raise
plenty row.'
"'Going! Going!' says I. 'Gold-dust or cash takes the entire stock.
The dust weighed before you, and taken at sixteen dollars the ounce--
the highest price on the Gaudymala coast.'
"Then the crowd disperses all of a sudden, and I don't know what's up.
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