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"Don't go callin' me names," admonished Krovac. "A fellow that hires another to
croak a man for him for one hundred bucks ain't got no license to call nobody
names."
Bince realized only too well that he was absolutely in the power of the fellow and
immediately his manner changed.
"Come," he said, "Krovac, there is no use in our quarreling. You can help me and
I can help you. There must be some other way to get around this."
"
What are you trying to do?" asked Krovac. "I got enough on you now to send you
up, and I don't mind tellin' yuh," he added, "that I had a guy hid down there in
the shop where he could watch you drop the envelope behind my machine. I got a
witness, yuh understand!"
Mr. Bince did understand, but still he managed to control his temper.
"What of it?" he said. "Nobody would believe your story, but let's forget that. What
we want to do is get rid of Torrance."
"
That isn't all you want to do," said Krovac. "There is something else."
Bince realized that he was compromised as hopelessly already as he could be if
the man had even more information.
"
Yes," he said, "there is something beside Torrance's interference in the shop. He's
interfering with our accounting system and I don't want it interfered with just
now."
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