"Yes."
"It is all I ask."
"And it is a great deal more than you deserve."
In due time the lawyers were ushered in, and both greeted Banker Brown servilely.
"Gentlemen," remarked the banker, "I am caught in a trap, and am obliged to wind up my affairs at once. I must transfer my possessions to this gentleman and—"
"Ahem!" interrupted one of the lawyers. "Forced to suspend, eh? You want a receiver, that is all; let him take your affairs and straighten them out as best he can. Or, declare yourself bankrupt, and let your creditors get what they can—"
"Probably Mr. Brown will do the business in his own way," suggested Deadwood Dick.
"Certainly, certainly!"
"The bulk of my obligation is to this gentleman—"
"All of it, I think," from Dick. "I have gathered up every scrap of your paper."