“No, I ain’t crazy. You got ten grand from Katz. The place has been making money, I figure about five grand. Then on the property, you could get ten grand from the bank. Papadakis gave fourteen for it, so it looked like you could get ten. Well, that makes twenty-five.”
“You would strip me clean, just for that?”
“It’s worth it.”
I didn’t move, but I must have had a flicker in my eye, because he jerked an automatic out of his pocket and leveled it at me. “Don’t start anything, Chambers. In the first place, I haven’t got it with me. In the second place, if you start anything I let you have it.”
“I’m not starting anything.”
“Well, see you don’t.”
He kept the gun pointed at me, and I kept looking at him. “I guess you got me.”
“I don’t guess it. I know it.”
“But you’re figuring too high.”
“Keep talking, Chambers.”