I know that in some parts politicians and bribery go hand-in-hand. Not so sure in this case that I would not have kept the.. Unless of course I'm sitting on a decent inventory of my own.
The impression I got was that he tried to bribe him with 4 cigars. The other 21 cigars had already been taken out.
This Durham guy sounds cheap to me.
I'm not saying I couldn't be bought, but it would take more than 4 cigars.