Gordon Young

“ An easy way to get a man into the penitentiary is by marked bills.
"Examine them."
"You could have kept a record of the numbers."
"Certainly," he admitted.
"But why offer this? I told you before——"
"I am not offering it. I am leaving it. The money is yours."
It irritates me to be puzzled. I looked at him for some time and said nothing. Neither did he. I wasn't in the mood to play a waiting game: it was I who wanted information this time. ”

“ It must be made plain that this Edwin Ellis was no ordinary person. He did not lose his temper, and he was straight business all the way; but, having discovered nothing of value, he prepared to go.
"Young man," he said quietly but rather impressively. "I did not believe a fraction of what I had heard of you—I made inquiries before coming. I have rather altered my opinion. You have brains, you have nerve and you are stubborn. Of course, what I want is the letter. ”

“ An honest lawyer—that is, honest in spirit rather than merely scrupulously observant of what is called the "ethics of the profession—" will, I am sure, become as familiar with empty pockets as an honest gambler. ”

“ And then, too, there is something contemptible about lying—except when it becomes magnificent, a thing that can happen to no man more than once or twice in a lifetime, and then inevitably in connection with some woman's fate. ”

“ The report had circulated among the tenderloin that Zellers had made a lucky find of "something" on Bryan; the report had percolated up into the ears of Thrope, and he would have any day given an arm to "get something on" Bryan. Political enemies never were more bitter.
My interest in the letter dropped to almost zero when I arrived at that conclusion. I told Zellers he had better make haste to start a contradictory report, because if the letter was produced Thrope and his gangsters would probably be furious to find he had so misled them. ”

“ Or a man is alive to hear."
My own regard for women is not that great; but my admiration for men who have such a regard for them is excessive.
THOSE remarks have not led me so far from my story as may appear; but to get hack to that letter: Zellers waylaid me at every corner and whined for his letter. ”