“Forget it,” Mason interrupted. “He sold us out, and that’s that. You can’t apologize it away, and you can’t explain it away. It’s happened, and that’s all there is to it. It’s one of those things that are bound to happen when you have to work through operatives. You can’t expect a man who draws eight dollars a day and expenses to pass up a juicy chunk of coin when a newspaper offers it to him.”
