Part 1. by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner]@TWC D-Link book Part 1. 12/23 It's a vast iron speculation!--millions upon millions in it! But fool as I am I told him he could have half the iron property for thirty thousand--and if I only had him back here he couldn't touch it for a cent less than a quarter of a million!" Mrs.Hawkins looked up white and despairing: "You threw away this chance, you let this man go, and we in this awful trouble? I don't know what is to become of us. I don't know what in the world is to become of us." A shade of uneasiness came into Hawkins's face. He said: "Why, Nancy, you--you can't believe what you are saying." "Believe it, indeed? |