"But I don't want to do it. You never asked me to do that before."
"Didn't I? Well, I had no occasion. I ask you now."
"What are you going to do? Are you going to harm any one?"
"No. I'll tell you what I'm going to do, but mind you, if you breathe a word to any being, I'll cut your tongue out."
Tony looked troubled, but not frightened.
"Go on," he said.
Rudolph continued in a rapid tone.
"I want money to carry out a plan of importance. This farm belongs to a farmer who is rich, and who keeps a part of his money in the house."
"How do you know that?"
"A friend of mine stopped there last week, and found out. He put me on the scent. The old man keeps from two to three hundred dollars in his desk. I must have that money."