24/26 Listen: I can stay there long as I want to. But I'll tell you what I'll do: make it worth my while and I'll hook up with your old glue factory, after all." Adams stopped his pacing abruptly, and stared at him. "'Make it worth your while ?' What you mean ?" "I got a good use for three hundred dollars right now," Walter said. Don't let me have it and I SWEAR I won't!" "Are you crazy ?" "Is everybody crazy that needs three hundred dollars ?" "Yes," Adams said. "They are if they ask ME for it, when I got to stretch every cent I can lay my hands on to make it look like a dollar!" "You won't do it ?" Adams burst out at him. |