Peter nodded.
"I think of your pleasure," said Varney, "always. By looking about me and keeping my eyes and ears open at all hours, I have found you just the thing."
"New and interesting?"
"There are men in this town who would run themselves to death trying to get in it on the ground floor."
Maginnis shook his head.
"I have done everything in this world," he said almost sadly, "except, I may say, the felonies."
"But this," said Varney, "is a felony."
Struck by his tone, Peter glanced up. "Mean it?"
"Sure thing."
"As I remarked before, what is the proposition?"