![]() ![]() I shrugged into my coat and watched him come. The butler came along the red path with smooth light steps and his back as straight as an ironing board. The chauffeur over by the garage had gone away. I stood up and lifted my coat off the back of the damp wicker chair and went off with it among the orchids, opened the two doors and stood outside in the brisk October air getting myself some oxygen. "Can I make a deal with this guy, if I think he's within hooting distance of being on the level?" And in the matter of money the General has instructed me to give you a check for whatever seems desirable." Regan would like to see you before you leave, sir. He stopped about two feet from me and said gravely: "Mrs. Who was this Joe Brody you paid the five thousand dollars to?" If he's a crook, he knows his onions, and if he's an honest man doing a little loan business on the side, he ought to have his money. Instead of that he makes you a present of them and admits they are gambling debts, which gives you a defense, even if he had kept the notes. Geiger can collect on these notes, unless you can show fraud. ![]() And it would take an awful lot of chiselers an awful lot of time to rob you of enough so that you'd even notice it." But nobody's going to break your heart, if it hasn't been done already. "It's a question of a little money against a lot of annoyance. "Your daughters have money in their own right, General?" "I'm afraid I'm rather an impatient man, Mr. ![]()
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