"A very stupid game it was, too."
"It may look so now; it did not then. It would not have been a hard job to persuade a sick man in a gambling-house to send his money to the bank for safe keeping."
"I don't think it would," said the invalid.
"Did you expect him to trust Phil at sight?" asked the detective.
"Not at all. Phil goes to prayer-meetings, and I thought he would be willing to spend most of the time, from Saturday night till Monday morning, with the sick brother of his best friend. By Monday noon he would have been willing to trust him with all he had in the world."
"I think he would," added Henry Gracewood.
"If he had sent me to the bank with the money, it would have gone there," I said, confidently.
"Perhaps not," replied Lynch.
"There would have been a big fight, at any rate," I continued. "I would not have given up the money while I had an arm left."