manage

“But,” asked Danglars, in a timid tone, “how did you manage about the other formalities—the contract—the settlement?”

“Well now, I guess you’ll manage all right,” said Matthew, looking at Anne’s white little face and the dark shadows under her eyes.

While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning what had happened said: “Hark ye, old fellow, why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on earth?”

Moriarty may have been engaged to engineer it on a promise of part spoils, or he may have been paid so much down to manage it.