“They’ll not believe you. My word will stand better than yours. You’ll simply get yourself into trouble.”
“I prove some thing.”
“You can’t; I’ve taken care of that. I have thought all along that the time would come when we would have to split. Of course, I had no intention of supporting you the rest of your natural life.”
Arlington was defying his former companion and tool, but no one knew better than he how dangerous Miguel Bunol was, and he was keenly on the alert for anything.
“I never be thrown over like this!” asserted the Spaniard. “I ruin you.”
“You will ruin yourself, that is all.”
“You say that. Ha! How we come to be friends in first place? I tell that! I will!”
“You wouldn’t dare!” exclaimed Chester, turning pale.
“You think that? You wait—you see! I tell how you have boy you hate, how you pay me to push him off bridge, how he sink, he drown! Ha!”
“But I didn’t mean for him to drown!” explained Chester.