He threw up both hands and caved.

Well, say, they 're down less than fifty feet, and their vein actually is n't paying them grub-stakes.

That's the exact state of the case.

Now, Winston, you do n't propose to tie yourself professionally with that sort of a beggarly outfit, do you ?" The younger man had been sitting motionless, his arm resting easily on the back of the chair, his eyes slowly hardening as the other proceeded.
"I never before clearly understood that poverty was necessarily a crime," he remarked thoughtfully, as Farnham came to a pause.
"Besides, I am not tied up with that special outfit.

I have merely agreed to examine into the matter." "Of course, I understand that; but what's the use?
You 'll only come to exactly the same conclusion all the others have.