"There, now, if you haven't got me wrong after all! Properly speaking, I'm not interested in building schemes."
"Well, supposing I say I had got a little scheme on? Nothing illegal in that, is there?"
"I don't know, and what's more I shan't inquire," said Hemingway encouragingly.
"All right, then, I had."
"Just as a matter of interest, was Mr. Carter to put up the cash?"
"Considering we - I - never had the chance to tell him about it, I can't say. I thought he might be glad of the chance to make a bit of money."
"And you and Mr. Jones were going to get a rake-off, I take it?"
"I'm not going to answer for Jones. Naturally, there would have been some sort of a commission."
"My mistake!" apologised the Inspector. "Seems to have been a fair pleasure to handle, Mr. Carter."
White gave a short laugh. "Poor devil, he was anxious to make some money of his own, which he hadn't got to account for to that wife of his!"