Don't have to have cash." "All very well--but it will be a great inconvenience to us, just the same." "Really--but that is hardly our affair, is it ?" said Pete carelessly.
The banker smote the shelf with an angry hand; some of the rouleaus of gold stacked on the inner shelf toppled and fell; gold pieces clattered on the floor.
"Johnson, what is your motive?
What are you up to ?" "It's all perfectly simple.

Old Hank and me used to be implicated together in the cow business down on the Concho.

One of the Goliad Bergmans--early German settlers." Here Hudson hung up and made interruption.
"Bergman says the check is right," he reported.
Johnson resumed his explanation: "As I was sayin', I reckon I know all the old-time cowmen from here to breakfast and back.

Old Joe Benavides, now--one of your best depositors; I fished Joe out of Manzanillo Bay thirty year back.

He was all drowned but Amen." Wetting his thumb he slipped off the next paper from under the rubber band.