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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: capacity, or any capacity, and therefore in demanding all or nothing,
would have no cause for hesitation, failing to get what he wanted,
in turning the evidence over to the police. In other words, where
Perlmer had to play his man cautiously and get what he could,
Danglar could go the limit and get all. As it stood, then, Danglar
and the gang had not found out the location of that hoard; but they
had found out where Perlmer kept his spurious papers - stuffed in
at the back of the bottom drawer of his desk in his office,
practically forgotten, practically useless to Perlmer any more, for,
having once shown them to Viner, there was no occasion to call them
into service again unless Viner showed signs of getting a little
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