“To save him? He’s committed no crime yet——”
“Will you give ten thousand?”
“Not a dollar! If Claude has committed some little indiscretion such as young men will——”
“He’s done more than that. It would be charity to designate it by the name you have just mentioned, but the authorities would call it something else.”
“Where is Claude?”
“At the club, just where you said he was.”
“Then——”
“I’ll take ten thousand and save the boy.”
“From what?”
“The electric chair!”