I feel that I've done the job and am entitled to the money.

If you wish to pay it, all right; otherwise I get it from Colonel Gaylord.

I received a retaining fee and was to have two hundred dollars more when I located the bonds.

In order not to stir up any bad feeling I'm willing to take that two hundred dollars from you and drop the matter." "It's blackmail!" said Radnor.
"Keep still, Rad," I said.

"It's very accommodating of Mr.Clancy to see it this way." I wrote out a check and tossed it to the detective.
"Now go to Colonel Gaylord," I said, "tell him that you have been unsuccessful in finding any clue; that the bonds will almost certainly be marketed in the city, and that your only hope of tracing them is to work from the other end.