'You must provide me with money.'
'Nonsense, Sampy. I—I have nothing. You know that well enough.'
'I don't know anything about it. You're clever enough to get what you want. You hooked Captain Trecarrel fast enough when you had set your mind on having him.'
Orange became scarlet. 'You are cruel, Sampson; you are worse, you are brutal. I will have nothing more to say to you.'
'Yes, you will,' said he, insolently. 'If you don't I'll go myself to Welltown, and force that pale-faced fool to give me money.'
'You know that she was plundered as well as others. Her money was sunk in Ophir.'
'I know that she can take her husband's money now. I suppose she has wit enough to keep the keys of his cash-box. Women are not such fools as to omit that.'
'I cannot ask her for money; indeed I cannot, Sampy.'
'Look here, Orange. How the devil am I to get away from this place without blunt? And how am I to live when I get away without ditto? You don't suppose I can dig and plough, do you?'
'I tell you I have nothing.'