I seemed to feel as unreasonably reluctant to close with the Bay Shore Development Company as I had been with Captain Jed or Colton.
"Shall I make a bid ?" asked Keene.
"No, not yet at any rate.

Tell me, this: Whose land have you already bought ?" He shook his head.

"That, of course," he said, with the same gracious smile, "I can hardly tell even to you.

Some of the deals are not yet closed, and, as a business man yourself, Mr.Paine, you--" "I am not a business man," I interrupted, impatiently.

"At least, not much of a one.