“Hard words break no bones!” laughed Toombs. “Say what you please, only give me the information I demand. And I insist on something more than the information, too,” he went on. “I want your promise that the corporation you represent will quit-claim all these lands to me.”
“To you?” asked Bosworth scornfully.
“Yes, to me!”
“Not to your clients, but to you personally?”
“To me, personally!”
“Thus placing you in a position to rob and blackmail your employers?”
“Call it what you like,” Toombs answered.
“I had been giving you credit for loyalty to the members of your thieving gang,” Bosworth said. “I see that I was mistaken.”
“But the information?” demanded Toombs.
“There are no such documents as you describe in existence!” the lawyer answered. “If there are, I am ignorant of the fact.”