The information which it contains is of the utmost possible importance to me.

I have bought it and paid for it, and I shall use it." Mr.Horser moistened his dry lips.
"I will give you," he said, "twenty thousand dollars for its return." Mr.Sabin laughed softly.
"You bid high," he said.

"I begin to suspect that our friends on the other side of the water have been more than ordinarily kind to you." "I will give you--forty thousand dollars." Mr.Sabin raised his eyebrows.
"So much?
After all, that sounds more like fear than anything.

You cannot hope to make a profitable deal out of that.

Dear me! It seems only a few minutes ago that I heard your interesting friend, Mr.
Skinner, shake with laughter at the mention of such a thing as a secret society." "Skinner is a blasted fool," Horser exclaimed fiercely.