“What does that have to do with you?”

“Nunnely has to have twenty-five hundred dollars or he’s going to the penitentiary. He has to have it within the next two or three days.”

“And you want me to go to him?” Bertha asked.

“Yes”

“And dangle a sum of cash in front of his eyes?”

“That’s right.”

“To settle the judgment?”

“Yes.”

“Do you think that he’ll settle a twenty-thousand-dollar judgment for twenty-five hundred dollars?”

“I’m certain of it.”