Gamble has a big hotel proposition on--and I want it stopped.

Can you get another attachment against him for about fifty thousand dollars ?" "It's risky!" And Collaton looked about him furtively.

"It's easy enough to fake an old note for money--" "You must not say 'fake' to me.

I will not countenance any crooked business." "To dig up an old note for money I am supposed to have borrowed and spent--" "Not supposed." "For money I borrowed and spent on the work out there--and have a quiet suit entered by one of my pet assassins in Fliegel's court, have the summons served and confess judgment.

Johnny is sucker enough to confess judgment, too, rather than repudiate a debt which he can not prove he does not owe; but I've already milked that scheme so dry that I'm afraid of it." "You're afraid of everything," Gresham charged him with the scorn one coward feels for another.