That's what I told Charley to tell you.

I told him to tell you I'd pay you every last----" "Well, well!" the old gentleman interrupted, testily.

"I don't know anything about that." "I'm expecting to pay you," Adams went on, swallowing again, painfully.
"I was expecting to do it out of a loan I thought I could get on my glue-works." The old gentleman lifted his frosted eyebrows.

"Oh, out o' the GLUE-works?
You expected to raise money on the glue-works, did you ?" At that, Adams's agitation increased prodigiously.

"How'd you THINK I expected to pay you ?" he said.