"Are you sure?"
"I am sure. Why, has he worked you?"
"Oh, no, but I am surprised."
"He is a terrible man."
"He was introduced to me, as I said, as a Spanish millionaire."
"He is a Spanish Shylock; he loans money, and he usually gets about two hundred per cent before he gets through. Why, I know a case where he got a lady to forge her husband's name to a note, and as soon as he got the note he commenced to squeeze. He got all the woman's jewels, all her money, all the real estate she held in her own name, then exposed her, and she committed suicide."
The baron's face became ghastly, and the detective asked:
"What is the matter? You look deathly pale."
"The wine has turned against me."
"But you haven't drank any."