“You’ll put over no lawyer’s trick on me,” Deland again interrupted. “Cora Cavendish has been out here, hasn’t she?”
“Yes. She was here two hours ago.”
“Why do you question me, then? She told you what I want.”
“You mean, Deland, that she delivered your message?”
“What’s the difference? I sent her out here to get the first installment you promised us.”
“So she said.”
“The situation now has changed, so changed for the worse that I now want all that you promised us,” Deland added, with sinister vehemence. “I not only want it, Madison, but I’m going to have it.”
“No, Deland, you are not,” said Madison, with more firmness than he yet had displayed.
“What’s that?”
Deland’s jaws closed with an audible snap.