"Look here, Gresham, I won't stand any monkey business from you! If there's ever any trouble comes out of this you'll get your share of it, and don't you forget it! You've had me lay attachments against the Gamble-Collaton Irrigation Company on forged notes.

Since I had nothing, Johnny paid them, because he was square.

The last attachment, though--for fifty thousand--he held off until I got that Slosher Apartment scheme in my own name, and turned it against me; and you had to pay it, because you had stood good for me." "What difference does that make to you ?" demanded Gresham.

"It was my own money and I got it back." "It makes just this much difference," explained Collaton: "Gamble and Loring are busy tracing all these transactions; and when they find out anything it will be fastened on me, for you never figure in the deals.
You even try to avoid acknowledging to me that you have anything to do with them." "You get all the money," Gresham reminded him.
"That's why I know you're framing it up to let me wear the iron bracelets if anything comes off.

Now you play square with me or I'll hand you a jolt that you won't forget! There's a girl responsible for your crazy desire to put my old partner on the toboggan--and that was the girl.