"After all, it is my affair--" "I know, but as I said, you might not approve my methods, and if you balk, all is up.

We've got the chance of our lives.

It's now or never." "I do not at all like the idea that you may be forcing me into a position where I may find myself doing something I shall be ashamed of for the rest of my life." Ruyler's tone was haughty.

He did not relish being led round by the nose, and his nerves were jumping.
"Now! Now!" said Spaulding soothingly, as he lit a cigar.

"When you hire a detective you hire him to do things you wouldn't do yourself; and if you won't give him the little help he's got to have from you or quit, what's the use of hiring him at all?
"I know perfectly well that nothing but your own eyes would convince you of what it's up to me to prove--to say nothing of the fact that I count on your entrance at the last minute to put an end to the whole bad business.