It was easy.
The only thing necessary was to bribe some of the officials.

The president of the company, Walton Beverley, put the dirty work on me as treasurer.

Now you can imagine what that meant." He had fallen into a cynical tone again.
"It meant that I soon found, or, rather, thought I found, that every man has his price--some higher, some lower, but a price, nevertheless.
It was my business to find it, to keep it as low as I could with safety.

So it went, from one crooked thing to another.

I knew I was crooked, but not as bad, I think, as the rest who put the actual work on me.