What does he want?
"No good, of course." "That may be said safely.

Have you seen him ?" "Yes." "When?
This morning ?" "No; he called at my house last night." "Called last night! What did he want ?" "Ten thousand dollars," replied Jasper.
"Ten thousand dollars!!" The lawyer's well-feigned surprise completed the deception practised upon Jasper.

He did not, for an instant, suspect collusion between him and Martin.
"Yes; he very coolly proposed that I should lend him that sum, enable him to carry on some lead-mining operations in the west." "Preposterous!" "So I told him." "Well, what did he say ?" "Oh, he blustered, and made covert threats of exposure, of course." "The scoundrel!" said Grind, fiercely.
"He's a villain double-dyed.

I have never ceased to regret that we brought him into this business.

We should have had a man of better spirit--of a nicer sense of honour." "Yes, Mr.Jasper, that is true enough," replied Grind; "but the mischief is, your men of nicer honour are too squeamish for the kind of work in which we employed him.