"I can't explain, but I'll give you fifty dollars to point that man out to me."
"You will give me fifty dollars?"
"Yes."
"I can earn that fifty dollars easy."
"I don't care how easy you earn it."
"But I don't understand your game."
"I've told you. I've got some valuable information—some 'tips' that Vance will pay big money to 'nip'; but I want my own way and time of opening up the subject to him, and I mean to make sure that my money is good."
"Why are you so anxious to deal with Vance?"
"I've been told he has got the inside track with the
Government, and that he is a square man."
"That's the reason you want him?"