“You mustn't admit it. There is no proof of it except his word.”
“What's your game? Whatever it is, it is too deep for me.”
“I've got it all arranged. You are to say that the boy owed you a gambling debt, and agreed to meet you to-morrow morning to pay it. Of the bonds, you are to know nothing, unless you say that he told you he had some which he was going to sell, in order to get money to pay you.”
“What advantage am I to get out of all this?”
“What advantage? Why, you will save yourself from suspicion.”
“That isn't enough. I didn't take the bonds, and you know it. I believe you did it yourself.”
“Hush!” said Willis Ford, looking around him nervously.
“Look here, Ford, I gave up your I O U, and now I find I've got to whistle for my money.”
“Go with me to my room, and you shall have four hundred dollars to-night.”
“In cash?”