"Sure I trust you," Borrochson said; "but if you should find it a big diamond, we will say, for instance, in that safe, where would I come in?"
"You think I would steal the diamond and tell you nothing, and then refuse to take the safe?" Wolfson asked.
"I don't think nothing," Borrochson replied stubbornly, and lapsed into silence.
Here was a deadlock that bade fair to break up the deal.
"Take a chance on me, Borrochson," Wolfson said at last.
"Why should I take a chance on you, Wolfson," Borrochson replied, "when we can both take a chance on the safe? If you don't want to take it, I will take it. You don't got to buy the safe, Wolfson, if you don't want to."
For five minutes more Wolfson pondered and at length he surrendered.
"All right," he said. "I'll make you this proposition: If I find it anything in the safe I will pay you six hundred, and if I don't find it nothing in the safe, I will pay you one hundred dollars for the privilege of looking. I'm willing to take a chance, too."
"That ain't no chance what you take it," Borrochson cried. "That's a dead-sure certainty."
"Why is it a certainty, Borrochson?" Wolfson retorted. "If I don't find nothing in the safe you can keep it, and then you got it one hundred dollars from me; and when Rubin comes into the store you could sell him the safe for five hundred dollars, anyway. So which whatever way you look at it, Borrochson, you get six hundred dollars for the safe."