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"I haven't laid a finger on you yet," Johnny reminded him, "but if you make another offer to sell me that land I don't know how I'll stand the strain." "Well, say you give me the money for fun then," amended Collaton. "I didn't know anything about this Birchard deal, but since you've mentioned it I can piece together a lot of things that mean something now.
Can you get another attachment against him for about fifty thousand dollars?" "It's risky!" And Collaton looked about him furtively. "It's easy enough to fake an old note for money " "You must not say 'fake' to me. I will not countenance any crooked business." "To dig up an old note for money I am supposed to have borrowed and spent " "Not supposed."
"We're not coining medals this year," declared Johnny, "but if it's you you're talking about, and you'll give me Gresham and Jacobs, I'll promise you a chance to stand outside the bars and look in at them." "It's a bet," decided Collaton promptly.
Gresham considered the matter in silence for some time, and Collaton let him think without interruption. They sat down now at one of the little tables and Collaton curtly ordered some drinks. "It's a very simple matter," Gresham finally stated. "My father was to have married Miss Joy's aunt but did not.
"It makes just this much difference," explained Collaton: "Gamble and Loring are busy tracing all these transactions; and when they find out anything it will be fastened on me, for you never figure in the deals. You even try to avoid acknowledging to me that you have anything to do with them." "You get all the money," Gresham reminded him.
The next stop was at Collaton's, where Johnny bought from that nonchalantly pleased young man his interest in the Gamble-Collaton Irrigation Company for five thousand dollars, A check for which amount he borrowed from Polly while Collaton was signing the transfer.
No, I won't make it an hour, I said twenty minutes;" and still smiling with imbecile delight he hung up the receiver and turned to Collaton with a frown. "I think I can raise that two thousand for you," he decided. "Now tell me just what you know about Gresham and Birchard." "Mr.
"Hello, Polly," he said vigorously into the interrupting instrument, and then Collaton, watching him anxiously, saw his face light up like a Mardi Gras illumination. "Bring my Baltimore straw hat!" jubilated Johnny. "Polly, I'll bring one if I have to go to Baltimore to get it." He paused, and the transmitter in front of his face almost glistened with reflected high-lights. "Engagements!
"If you'll call me up to-night I'll let you know how much it will be and when he is likely to bank it." "Why do you tell me this?" puzzled Collaton. "Because I want him broke!" explained Gresham, his face suddenly twitching viciously in spite of himself. Collaton thought it over carefully. "What's your telephone number?" he accommodatingly inquired.
Gamble, you would be too busy explaining things on your account to bother with my affairs to any extent." "I was in jail once," Collaton told him with quiet intensity. "If I ever go again the man who puts me there will have to go along, so that I will know where to find him when I get out. Good-by." "Wait a minute," said Gresham.
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