We've got to have a guarantee that you don't quit on us, and that those logs will be driven down the branch as far as the river in time to catch our drive.

Therefore I'm going to make you a good price per thousand, but payable only when the logs are delivered to our rivermen." Radway, with his usual mental attitude of one anxious to justify the other man, ended by seeing only his employer's argument.

He did not perceive that the latter's proposition introduced into the transaction a gambling element.

It became possible for Morrison & Daly to get a certain amount of work, short of absolute completion, done for nothing.
"How much does the timber estimate ?" he inquired finally.
"About five millions." "I'd need a camp of forty or fifty men then.

I don't see how I can run such a camp without borrowing." "You have some money, haven't you ?" "Yes; a little.