I am here to get your figures and, if possible, conclude the purchase of your property this afternoon.

It is Sunday, of course," he added, with a good-humored laugh, "and contracts signed to-day are not legal; but we can make a verbal contract and the papers may be signed later.

I will defer my departure until the afternoon train to-morrow for that purpose.

Now name your figure, Mr.Paine." Of course I had guessed what was coming.

If I intended to sell at all here was my opportunity to do so--to, as Captain Jed expressed it, "block Colton's game" without sacrificing the principle for which I had fought, and make a good bit of money for myself.