"Why, that Evans place ain't wuth the taxes." "It's more 'n likely wuth a million.

But think! Him tellin' me _I'd_ made forty-eight thousand dollars! It give me a jolt, an' I says _I_ didn't make it.

I told him I'd fell down an' turned the hull thing over to him.

'It's _you_ that's made forty-eight thousand,' I says." "_What ?_" Allie inquired, sharply.

Then when her father had repeated himself, she asked with even greater intensity: "Wha'd he say to that?
He didn't take it, did he ?" "He laughed kinda queer an' says all I got to do to give him a good night's rest is to wire Henry Nelson the deal's closed.