"Bojo, you're lying," said Marsh abruptly.
"I'm not, I—"
"And you're lying badly!"
"What about that check?"
"That's all right; Drake may have done what you said, but you never knew—"
"Roscy, I swear."
"Hold up and answer this. Do you want me to believe, Tom Crocker, that you deliberately told me and Fred DeLancy, your closest friends, a lie, in order to get us to spread false information to our friends, to ruin our friends in order to make a killing for you? Well, a straight answer."
Bojo was silent.
"No, no, Bojo; don't come to me with any cock-and-bull story like that—"
"Roscy, it is a lie. I was completely in the dark myself; but I won't touch a cent of it until your losses are squared, every dollar of them!"