"We?"
"You and I."
The room was very still; then Melville spoke again.
"Haven't you any ready money, Paul?"
"Y—e—s."
"Have you enough so that we could halve a hundred—pay the fifty-dollar deficit and put fifty dollars in the bank?"
"You mean you'd pay half of it if I would?"
"Yep."
"I—see."
"Could you manage it—fifty dollars?"