"Per annum!" he said.

"Five per cent a month." "A month! That would be sixty per cent a year." "Precisely." "But that is monstrous." "I don't ask gentlemen to come to me.

They come of their own free will.
Those are my terms, and they can take it or leave it." "Then I shall leave it." The Admiral rose angrily from his chair.
"But one moment, sir.

Just sit down and we shall chat the matter over.
Yours is a rather unusual case and we may find some other way of doing what you wish.

Of course the security which you offer is no security at all, and no sane man would advance five thousand pennies on it." "No security?
Why not, sir ?" "You might die to-morrow.