I'll send you a daily statement of what I've been doing, and you can fix up a report to your superior from that.

In addition to this you can put in a few hours each day trying to find out who is annoying me in this rascally manner, and for this service I'll pay you five times the agency price.

How does that proposition strike you, Mr.--" "Riordan.

Me name's Riordan," said Fogerty, with a smile.

"No, Mr.
Mershone," shaking his head gravely, "I can't see my way to favor you.
It's an easy job now, and I'm afraid to take chances with a harder one." Something in the tone nettled Mershone.
"But the pay," he suggested.
"Oh, the pay.