“Stop your nonsense,” Darrell said to him; then to Mathews, “Speak out like a man—what is it all about?”
“That we are told that it is recorded that you paid six thousand four hundred dollars to the Don for six hundred and forty acres of land,” Miller explained.
“When did I do that?” Darrell asked, with increasing pallor, the sight of which his interlocutor did not relish.
“On the 13th day of February, 1872,” Gasbang replied.
“Who saw the record?”
“I did. I saw the entry made by the notary.”
“Well, the notary lies, that's all.”
“He couldn't. He could be prosecuted for it,” Miller said.
“Very well, he shall be; for it is a lie that I bought any such land or paid any such price for it.”
“Perhaps the Don had the entry made,” Hughes suggested.