At the beginning of the story, Bob is pleased with his success in life. Rather patronizingly, he hopes “Jimmy has done half as well” and thinks it unlikely that he has, since Jimmy was always a “plodder.” Bob contrasts his own ambition and sharp wits favorably with Jimmy’s slow but steady attitude to life. However, he entirely omits the moral dimension, making no distinction between making a fortune honestly and becoming rich through crime. At the end of the story, he is arrested, and the reader assumes that he will, at least, go to prison. Although this is an incidental feature in the story, it provides a traditionally moral ending. Bob’s career in crime, which has provided him with wealth and which he sees as success, has come to a bad end.