“Are you?” asked Frank derisively.
“I am, I am,” nodded Morgan. “It’s very bad—very bad.”
“If you feel so bad about it, sir, it’s the easiest thing in the world for you to bring it to an end.”
“But you are the one to terminate it, young man.”
“How do you make that out?”
“You know how you can settle this affair without delay. You heard my proposition in Prescott.”
“I believe I did. It was very interesting as the proposition of a thoroughly unscrupulous man.”
“Don’t get insulting, Mr. Merriwell. I am doing my duty. Milton Sukes was my partner. Do you think I can conscientiously ignore the fact that he was murdered?”
“I fail to understand what that has to do with me.”
“You know I have proofs,” said Morgan sternly. “You know they will convict you.”