Three Thousand Dollars

Now state your problem
THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS BY ANNA KATHARINE GREEN AUTHOR OF THE LEAVENWORTH CASE, THE MILLIONAIRE BABY, THE MAYOR'S WIFE, THE FILIGREE BALL, ETC., ETC.
BOSTON RICHARD G. BADGER THE GORHAM PRESS 1910
Copyright , 1909, by Richard G. Badger Copyright , 1908 and 1909, by the Crowell Publishing Company
All Rights Reserved The Gorham Press, Boston, U. S. A.

Do you know what would happen to him?
NOW state your problem.
The man who was thus addressed shifted uneasily on the long bench which he and his companion bestrode. He was facing the speaker, and though very little light sifted through the cobweb-covered window high over their heads, he realized that what there was fell on his features, and he was not sure of his features, or of what effect their expression might have on the other man.
Are you sure we are quite alone in this big, desolate place? he asked.
It seemed a needless question. Though it was broad daylight outside and they were in the very heart of the most populated district of lower New York, they could not have been more isolated had the surrounding walls been those of some old ruin in the heart of an untraversed desert.