“But her money is already gone.”
“Her husband has a full purse.”
“But how—”
“Oh, I see the way clear enough. It’s only half the work of the other job, and double the money.”
“The money! Ah! how do you think to get it?”
“Honestly, this time; honestly, old man. It shall come to us as a reward!”
Drawing nearer still to her hesitating partner, the woman began to whisper rapidly, gesticulating fiercely now and then, while the old man listened in amazement, admiration, doubt, and fear; asking eager questions, and feeling his way cautiously toward conviction.
When the argument was ended, he said, slowly:
“I shall never feel safe until it’s over, and we are away from this place. When can you do—the job?”
“To-morrow night.”