Annixter came at once to the main point.
"I got a wire from Osterman this morning, Governor, and, well--we've got Disbrow.

That means that the Denver, Pueblo and Mojave is back of us.
There's half the fight won, first off." "Osterman bribed him, I suppose," observed Magnus.
Annixter raised a shoulder vexatiously.
"You've got to pay for what you get," he returned.

"You don't get something for nothing, I guess.

Governor," he went on, "I don't see how you can stay out of this business much longer.

You see how it will be.
We're going to win, and I don't see how you can feel that it's right of you to let us do all the work and stand all the expense.