Gresham's apartments. "Of course Jacobs gets five thousand for engineering the deal, but that gives us five thousand apiece. Jacobs was told—about eleven o'clock—that the money was there." 

 "Keep my share; but why didn't you send me word?" snarled Gresham. "I nearly put my foot in it by having a man with whom Gamble is doing business inquire about him at the Fourth National. In place of injuring his credit, we've strengthened it." 

 "Good work!" approved Collaton. "I hope he makes all kinds of money." 

 "I don't!" snapped Gresham. "Did you read the papers this morning?" 

 "I read the racing and base-ball returns." 

 "There was more to interest you in the news. Gamble has a big hotel proposition on—and I want it stopped. Can you get another attachment against him for about fifty thousand dollars?" 

 "It's risky!" And Collaton looked about him furtively. "It's easy enough to fake an old note for money—" 

 "You must not say 'fake' to me. I will not countenance any crooked business." 

 "To dig up an old note for money I am supposed to have borrowed and spent—" 

 "Not supposed." 

 "For money I borrowed and spent on the work out there—and have a quiet suit entered by one of my pet assassins in Fliegel's court, have the summons served and confess judgment. Johnny is sucker enough to confess judgment, too, rather than repudiate a debt which he can not prove he does not owe; but I've already milked that scheme so dry that I'm afraid of it." 

 "You're afraid of everything," Gresham charged him with the scorn one coward feels for another. "Your operations out there were spread over ten thousand acres of ground; and it would take a dozen experts six months, without any books or papers to guide them, to make even an approximate estimate of your legitimate expenditures." 

 "I don't know," hesitated Collaton with a shake of his head—"I only touched the high places in the actual work out there. I believe I was a sucker at that, Gresham. If I had buckled down to it, like Gamble does, we could have made a fortune out of that scheme. He's a wonder!" 

 "He has wonderful luck," corrected Gresham. "I tried my best to scare Courtney 

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