"They take money.

I took the assistant treasurer aside and I said, 'I want such and such done,' and I slipped a fifty dollar bill into his hand.

And the fellow took it, took it like a shot." "He took it!" gasped Mr.Spillikins.
"He did," said Mr.Fyshe.

"There ought to be a criminal law for that sort of thing." "I say!" exclaimed Mr.Spillikins, "they ought to go to jail for a thing like that." "And the infernal insolence of them," Mr.Fyshe continued.

"I went down the next day to see the deputy assistant (about a thing connected with the same matter), told him what I wanted and passed a fifty dollar bill across the counter and the fellow fairly threw it back at me, in a perfect rage.