THE CROSS-EXAMINATION OF RUSSELL SAGE
and would have made him disregard me and drop the bag."
Mr. Choate. "Did you think of the danger that Laidlaw and Norcross were in?"
Mr. Sage. "No more than the other clerks. We were all alike."
Mr. Choate. "And the reason you did not tell them to go into the other room was that they would even then not be out of danger?"
Mr. Sage. "I thought it would displease Norcross, and show that I was trying to do something to head him off."
Mr. Choate. "And he would allow the bag to drop?"
Mr. Sage. "Yes, sir."
Mr. Choate. "And kill you?"
Mr. Sage. "Kill me and kill the whole of us."
Mr. Choate. "What is your business?"
Mr. Sage. "My business is banker and broker."
Mr. Choate. "Why do you call yourself a banker?"
Mr. Sage. "Because I buy stock and discount paper and make loans."
Mr. Choate. "You are a money lender, are you not?"
Mr. Sage. "Sometimes I have money to loan."
Mr. Choate. "At various rates of interest?"
Mr. Sage. "Sometimes."
Mr. Choate. "Varying from six to sixty per cent?"
Mr. Sage. "Oh, no."
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