“Yes, madam.”
“You will tell me?”
“I beg your pardon,” Elmer said, “that is my secret.”
“I will pay you for the secret, if its knowledge helps the police any—that is, providing you will not take the case yourself.”
“Oh, do take it, Elmer; both this young lady and her father have been very good to me,” said Louise.
Mignon was utterly disgusted with the shameless woman’s acting.
“Well, I suppose I must take it or you will torment the life out of me,” replied Greer.
“You must know, young lady,” the fellow continued, turning to the banker’s daughter, “that I shall require a good heap of money at the start. There is but one way to reach your father, and that is by bribing some member of the gang who carried him off.”
“Here is a check for two thousand dollars; will that be enough for the present?”
“I don’t like checks.”