"Well, I'll have to ask the old goat myself," he said.
"He's coming here to-day." He took up Orlando Guise's letter from the table, glanced at it smilingly, and threw it down again.

"He must be a queer specimen," Burlingame continued.

"He wouldn't take Orlando Guise's cheque yesterday.

He says he'll only be paid in hard cash.

He's coming here this afternoon to get it.