“What have you—bonds?”
“Something better.”
“I’m not buying, so there’s no use of your talking.”
Cook seemed nonplused. He knew the old rascal in front of him was still engaged in business as a “fence.”
Enoch could not understand Murphy’s disinclination to deal with him. Monte was playing his fish. If he appeared too eager to do business, the other might seek to take advantage of that fact.
“You know I am square.”
“Now, I have your own word for it,” remarked Murphy.
“You can do the biggest stroke of business of your life through me.”
“Sit down; it will do no harm for you to tell me about it.”
“You have dealt in diamonds?”