“Shut up till I finish. There’s just one thing I care about, and you’d better be telling the truth about that. If there’s not any hundred and twenty thousand in those three boxes, or you try to run out with it, hell will never hold you.” “Don’t worry. It’s there.” “Baby,” I said, “it had better be.”

He lays down his only condition for helping her.

— A Touch of Death (Charles Williams, 1953)


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