The attorney laughed.
"My opinion is that it is an conspiracy," he said.

"That is just the word, a conspiracy, and T.J.Jones is at the head of it.

The book agent has come first; now the Colonel will come; and then Skinner, all asking the same thing, but my idea is that they are all in partnership, and that Jones is engineering the whole thing.

They want your money, and that is all they want, and once they get it they will be happy and you will be left with four lung-testers on your hands." Even in Kilo slang comes and goes as in the rest of the world and Miss Sally was not sure about the word "lung-tester." It had a slangy sound, and it must be a term of reproach applied to the future value of the four men Toole had mentioned.

She accepted it as such.
"All I have to say," continued the attorney, "is to refuse the Colonel, and to refuse Skinner if he comes, just as you have refused this book agent.