A. M. Chisholm

“ He made a strong bluff at a best offer of fifteen cents a share. Then I flashed a picture of my wife and kids on him and swore I would let go under twenty. He gave it to me, claiming it was because I was in hard luck. Wouldn't that jar you? And him thinking he was skinning me thirty cents a share. That's your honest guy, every time! ”

“ Type of American Motherhood. It's great. I suppose we go right through to the good old Atlantic now, Charlie, eh?"
Collingwood, known to his few intimates as Charlie Smith, and to scores of swindled individuals by as many aliases, nodded absently. He was the real head and executive brain of the trio; they worked on his "frame-ups" with absolute confidence. ”