Fools walk in
where angels fear to tread. You--"
"Will you be good enough, Mr. Sprouse, to tell me just what you are
trying to get at? Come to the point. I know nothing whatever against
Mr. Curtis and his friends. You assume a great deal--"
"Excuse me, Mr. Barnes. I'll admit that you don't know anything
against them, but you suspect a whole lot. To begin with, you suspect
that two men were shot to death because they were in wrong with some
one at Green Fancy. Now, I could tell you who those two men really
were and why they were shot. But I sha'n't do anything of the sort,--
at least not at present. I--"
"You may have to tell all this to the State if I choose to go to the
authorities with the statement you have just made."
"I expect, at the proper time, to tell it all to the State. Are you
willing to listen to what I have to say, or are you going to stay on
your high-horse and tell me to go to the devil? You interest yourself
in this affair for the sake of a little pleasurable excitement. I am
in it, not for fun, but because I am employed by a great Power to risk
my life whenever it is necessary. This happens to be one of the times
when it is vitally necessary.
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