Everybody is out to get his, and get it the easiest and quickest way he can.

You know that's so.

And that's just what I am going to do." Larry had once talked much the same way, but it seemed puzzlingly strange just now to hear such talk from a young girl.

Then he understood.
"You couldn't help having such ideas, Maggie, living among crooks ever since you were a kid.

Why, Old Jimmie could not have used better methods, or got better results, if he had set out consciously to make you a crook." Then a sudden possibility came to him.