"Not a bit of it! It's all blown over, and if it hasn't, it will. All
they'll remember, after a while, is that you've got a wad of money.
They'll forget how you got it, and they won't care." He puffed away and
purred contentedly.
"You're a giant," he went on, "an intellectual giant to bag six
figures." Then he waved his hand about the room and said: "You take this
old court-house, for instance; I was on the buildin' committee, but to
save my life--hold on a minute--" he pulled himself up with a round
turn, "that was outside the statute, of course it was. Well, to save my
life I couldn't pull more 'n a hundred and twenty-three thousand out of
it. I came near gettin' caught, too," he admitted, laughing.
"But you weren't," commented Murgatroyd.
"No, sir!" said Broderick. "I don't do jobs that way. You could have
gone through the thing with a microscope, and you wouldn't have found
hair nor hide of Broderick."