And I'm here to-night to ask you for it." "I thought you said you didn't want any bribes." "I don't.

May I ask you what your margin of profit is at your machinery company ?" "My margin of profit?
What's that?
Well, I suppose it runs around twelve per cent." "Then will you please allow me to give you twelve thousand dollars in profits?
I'm in the lumber business.

I have a contract that runs into the millions; surely that is good enough security to a man"-- he couldn't resist the temptation--"who knows my absolute innocence.

It isn't good enough for the bankers, who still believe me guilty, so I've come directly to you.

I need one hundred thousand dollars' worth of lumber-mill machinery, blade saws, crosscuts, jackers, planers, kickers, chain belting, leather belting, and everything else that goes to make up a first-class plant.