“Even considering the risk factor, seventy-five thousand is too much,” Butch said. “On the run like you are, you need all the money you can get. Let’s split it at thirty-seven five.” Indicating the photographs of the Hammer kids, Bridget said, “All that education must have cost a fortune.” “They all got scholarships,” Cressie said. “But there were a slew of other bills.” “And one of them still in school,” Bridget said. “We can get money any time we need it, dirty money that we’ll make clean. Hard times might be coming for this country. Very hard. Take the seventy-five. It’s our final offer.”
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