The prospect of enemies, more or less, in Denboro, did not trouble me.
"But you'll have to decide," he went on, "who you'll sell to." "Or not sell at all," I suggested.
"Can you afford to do that?
There'll be money--a whole lot of money--in this before it's over, if I know the leaders on both sides.

You've got the whip-hand.

There'll be money in it.

Can you afford to let it slip ?" I did not answer.

Suddenly his expression changed.