He laughed indulgently.
"Touché, monsieur. But I don't care for copies. I am a collector of originals."
"They are said to be expensive."
"But valuable."
"Still, the cost is a consideration."
"Not when some one else pays the shot, Mr. Sedgwick."
"I see. You expect those poor devils whom you are misleading to draw the chestnut out of the fire for you."
"Exactly," he admitted with the gayest aplomb.
"You are willing that they should pay to the limit?" I asked, curious to see how far his cynical audacity would carry him.
He shrugged, with a lift of his strong hands.