Money Lending and Other Sins I
Red Dead Redemption 2
Mission 9 of 24
Started by 
Horseshoe Overlook, New Hanover
Available after Americans at Rest; can be played in a different order
"Money Lending and Other Sins I" is a story mission of Red Dead Redemption 2 in Chapter 2: Horseshoe Overlook. It is given by Leopold Strauss at the gang's camp at Horseshoe Overlook and becomes available after Americans at Rest. This guide lists it ninth of the chapter's 24 missions, which can be played in a different order.
Strauss, the gang's money lender, offers Arthur Morgan a cut if he collects his loans, and names three debtors. It is the first of the seven "Money Lending and Other Sins" missions, which run from chapter 2 to chapter 6.
- Location
- The gang's camp at Horseshoe Overlook, the Heartlands, New Hanover
- Unlocks
- Money Lending and Other Sins II, the three collections
Characters
Chick Matthews, Mr. Wróbel and Lilly Millet are only named here; Arthur meets them in Money Lending and Other Sins II.
Story
Strauss's offer
At the camp, Strauss calls Arthur over: "Herr Morgan, Herr Morgan." Arthur answers: "Mr. Strauss." Strauss asks whether he is busy and offers to cut him in. Arthur is surprised: "Loaning? Already?" Strauss explains why he needs him: "You know how it is... people is happy to borrow off someone like me, but... more enthusiastic paying back to someone like you."
Three debtors
Arthur asks who owes money. Strauss names three people:
- Chick Matthews, who works at Guthrie Farm, a hand, Strauss believes;
- Mr. Wróbel, the smallholder at Painted Sky, who "runs the operations there... badly", in Strauss's words;
- Miss Lilly Millet, a ranch maid at Emerald Ranch.
Legal work
Arthur mocks the gang's leader: "And here was me believing Dutch's bluster about us helping folk." Strauss answers: "It's legal work, Mr. Morgan. Debtors belong in prison... we are doing them a favor." Arthur replies that he will make sure the debtors see it that way.
Strauss gives one last instruction: "Put the debts in the deed box and try not to kill them... it's very bad for business."
What follows
The three collections make up Money Lending and Other Sins II.
Choices and variants
Order of play
The mission becomes available after Americans at Rest and can be played before or after the other missions of the chapter that are open at that point.
Trivia
- Strauss's own camp scenes do not play while this mission and its second part are available.
- Strauss calls Arthur "Herr Morgan" or "Mr. Morgan"; Arthur answers with "Mr. Strauss", and calls him "Herr Strauss" at other times.
- Thomas Downes, whom Strauss later sends Arthur to see, is the man who stopped Arthur's fight with Tommy in Americans at Rest. When Arthur comes to collect, Downes coughs blood on him; Arthur is later diagnosed with tuberculosis.