There was silence for a while.
"Where did you get it?"
"I'm not at liberty to tell you."
"You won't tell?"
"I can't."
"Why not?"
"I got the money honestly—that's all I can say about it."
"Oh, ho!" exclaimed Applegate. "You got the money honestly, yet you can't tell me where it came from! That's very likely, isn't it? If you got it honestly you shouldn't be ashamed to tell where you got it."
"I'm not ashamed. But I'm not at liberty to tell."
"Mighty funny thing that you should get nine hundred dollars so quickly. You were pretty hard up last week, weren't you? Had to ask for an advance on your month's wages."