He may not be able to meet me on this proposition.

He's got other business on hand.

If he pulls out--and he probably will--I'll have to go it alone, but I'll have to borrow.

I had thought with his money and mine we would have enough to pull off the affair without mortgaging anything.

As it is, I guess I'll have to see S.Behrman." "I'll be cursed if I would!" exclaimed Harran.
"Well, S.Behrman is a screw," admitted the engineer, "and he is 'railroad' to his boots; but business is business, and he would have to stand by a contract in black and white, and this chance in hops is too good to let slide.