“Enoch Cook has been in this house within four hours.”
“Then I did not see him.”
“You not only saw him, but, with the help of Joe Snell and Pat Brady, you managed to rob the poor devil.”
Monte shuddered. The dive-keeper knew all. Still the old “fence” determined to stand by his colors.
“Some one,” he said, with a hollow laugh, “has been imposing a cock-and-bull story upon you, Mike.”
“No; but you are trying mighty hard to make a strike in that direction.”
“Is it money you are after?”
As can be seen, Murphy had a very wholesome dread of his visitor.
“Suppose I did want to make a loan?” sneered Quick.
“You are an old friend, and I might stretch a point and lend you a few hundred.”