It was a lawyer.

He stalled that the offer had been made to us by Miss Richmond." "How much ?" "Two hundred thousand dollars and us to get out of all the troubles we are in." "And you took it, of course ?" "I did not!" "No ?" Harry mopped his forehead again.

"Well, maybe you 're right.
Maybe you 're wrong.

But whatever you did--well, that's just the thing I would 'ave done." "Thanks, Harry." "Only--" and Harry was staring lugubriously at the vein above him, "it's going to take us a long time to get two hundred thousand dollars out of things the wye they stand now." "But--" "I know what you're thinking--that there's silver 'ere and that we 're going to find it.

Maybe so.