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Blount put the letters back into his pocket and mechanically buttoned his light top-coat over them for additional safety. "Do you mean to say that you haven't passed the word to Hathaway and McDarragh and a dozen others I could name?" he asked. "Of course I haven't.
The securing of evidence of the kind which would really give him the whip-hand promised to be a delicate undertaking. Men like McDarragh talked openly enough about the illegal special freight rates, but talk was not evidence.
Every bribe you've offered and paid, every false name you've put on the registration lists, every deal you've made with men like Pete Hathaway and McDarragh, has had its witnesses, and by the gods, Hardwick, they'll testify every man of them!" Again the vice-president sprang from his chair, but this time it was to walk the floor with his head bowed and his hands in his pockets.
McDarragh, owner and manager of the "Wire-Gold" properties in the Moscow district, winked slyly when Blount cautiously inserted the probe. "You're on, Mr. Blount.
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