“Why, there wouldn’t be enough to go round the lot that’s in.”
“Yes, thar wud, an’ will. Old as I am, I hain’t yit quite lost hearin’. My yeers are as sharp as they iver wor, an’ jist as reliable. Larst night I heerd a whisper pass atween Padilla an’ another o’ them Spanish chaps, that’s put me up to somethink.”
“What did you hear?”
“That the swag’ll tot up to the total o’ three hundred thousand dollars.”
“The deuce it will! Why, they said it wasn’t half that much. Padilla himself told me so.”
“No matter what he’s told you. I tell ye now, it’s all o’ the six figures I’ve sayed. In coorse, it’s their interest to make it out small as they possibly can; seein’ as our share’s to be a percentage. I know better now; an’ knowin’ it, an’t agoin’ to stan’ none o’ theer nonsense. Neyther shud you, Bill. We both o’ us are ’bout to risk the same as any o’ the t’others.”
“That’s true enough.”
“In coorse it is. An’ bein’ so, we oughter share same as them; can, an’ will, if we stick well thegither. It’s jest as eezy one way as t’other.”
“There’s something in what you say, mate.”
“Theer’s every thin’ in it, an’ nothin’ more than our rights. As I’ve sayed, we all risk the same, an’ that’s gettin’ our necks streetched. For if we make a mucker o’ the job, it’ll be a hangin’ matter sure. An’ I dar say theer’s got to be blood spilt afore it’s finished.”