“I do not need it.”
“I will bring the money here to this room, and place it on this table, before you.”
“Spare yourself the trouble.”
“It may be you doubt me? It may be you think I will bring you harm? Then we will both sit still, and I will call old Mezin to bring the money.”
“I tell you that you are giving yourself needless trouble.”
“Wait till I have named a price.”
“Bruant,” said Frank Merriwell clearly and distinctly, “you cannot command enough money to buy anything of me! Do you think I’d touch one coin of your crime-stained money! I should feel that every piece was dripping with the blood of Dreyfus!”
“Most Americans are not such fools!”
Bruant had quite lost control of his temper now, and he snarled the words.
“Most Americans cannot be bought with ill-gotten coin!”