He half offered the box to Vine, who, however, shook his head.
"Come," he said, "you are a little enigmatic.

There is only one sort of business we understand here.

People come to buy or to sell.

Have you anything to sell ?" Norris Vine smiled quietly, as though at some thought which was passing through his brain.

He raised his eyes to Weiss', and looked him steadily in the face.
"I am in possession," he said, "of something which I think, Mr.Weiss, you would give half your fortune to buy, but I have not come here to sell.