"We'll say I lied.

What of it! I didn't want to antagonize you, then.

Only a fool is truthful at all times." He laughed again, mockingly.

"I'm truthful when I want to be." He saw the frank disgust in Lawler's eyes, and the desire to drive it out, to make the man betray some sign of the perturbation that must be in him, drove Warden to an indiscretion.
"You're a wise guy, Lawler," he jeered.

"A minute ago you hinted that this thing was being engineered by a bunch of cheap crooks.