"You even got me where I can't raise the money to pay back what my boy owes you! Do you suppose anybody's fool enough to let me have a cent on this business after one look at what you got over there across the road ?" "No, I don't." "No, you don't," Adams echoed, hoarsely.

"What's more, you knew my house was mortgaged, and my----" "I did not," Lamb interrupted, angrily.

"What do _I_ care about your house ?" "What's the use your talking like that ?" Adams cried.

"You got me where I can't even raise the money to pay what my boy owes the company, so't I can't show any reason to stop the prosecution and keep him out the penitentiary.

That's where you worked till you got ME!" "What!" Lamb shouted.