Page:Hamilton play 1917.pdf/138

126 Yes, we know.

Then you haven't come for information—but merely for the love of sport.

That money was paid out of the Treasury of the United States.

It was paid out of my own personal account.

That we shall require to have proved. But you know what it was paid for.

Yes, I know what it was paid for, and from what Mr. Giles says, you know also.

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I do. It was paid to this man that he might buy up the states' paper—the states' debts.

[Stopping opening drawer quickly.] What do you mean?

That he might buy up the states' debts, for your benefit.

[Rising.] What!