CHAPTER XVII.
JOE STARTS IN BUSINESS "Do you think you can keep a hotel, Joe ?" asked Morgan.
"I can try," said Joe promptly.
"Come in, gentlemen," said the restaurant-keeper.
"We can talk best inside." The room was small, holding but six tables.

In the rear was the kitchen.
"Let me see your scale of prices," said Morgan.
It was shown him.
"I could breakfast cheaper at Delmonico's," he said.
"And better," said the proprietor of the restaurant; "but I find people here willing to pay big prices, and, as long as that's the case, I should be a fool to reduce them.

Yes, there's a splendid profit to be made in the business.

I ought to charge a thousand dollars, instead of five hundred." "Why don't you ?" asked Morgan bluntly.
"Because I couldn't get it.

Most men, when they come out here, are not content to settle down in the town.