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_Your name is Merton and you find that all you have to do is / reach into your safe to get money. The more you take, the more you / find. And just when Quiggs has cut your future down to nothing. / A wonderful discovery! Or is it? Of course it is. You'll be the / richest man in the world. But will you? _
Peter Merton sat at his desk after the District Attorney's men left, and put his head in his hands. He was still sitting that way when Miss Irene Simmons came in.