When Gray nodded, there was another brief silence before the speaker ventured to say: "I know this bird Nelson, and, take it from me, you're giving him the best of it.

If I hadn't known him as well as I do, I wouldn't of put in with you to break him.

It's all right to trim a sucker once; it's like letting the blood of a sick man--he's better for it.

But to ride a square guy to death, to keep his veins open--well, I ain't in that kind of business.
Now about this Jackson; you can land him, I s'pose, if you try, but it would be lower than a frog's foot, after him playing square with you." "What do you mean by that ?" "He could have stung you, easy, couldn't he?
You surged out here on purpose to buy the lease, but he hid out all afternoon to avoid you." "He is a thief.

He is stealing hundreds of dollars a day." "Sure! From the Atlantic, that has stolen hundreds of thousands from the likes of him--yes, millions.