"I really don't see what occasion you have to taunt me. I have done my duty faithfully, and taken no more than my just pay for the labor I have performed."
"Sam Yates, I took you out of the gutter. Do you know that?"
"I do, sir."
"Did you ever hear of my doing such a thing as that before?"
"I never did."
"What do you suppose I did it for?"
"To serve yourself."
"You are right; and now let me tell you that I am not done with you yet, and I shall not be done with you until I have in my hands a certificate of the death of Paul Benedict, and an instrument drawn up in legal form, making over to me all his right, title and interest in every patented invention of his which I am now using in my manufactures. Do you hear that?"
"I do."
"What have you to say to it? Are you going to live up to your pledge, or are you going to break with me?"