My advice to you is to go to Squire Rawson and either offer to take him in with you to the value of his lands, or else make him a direct offer for what those lands are really worth.

He knows as much about the value of those lands as you or Mr.Halbrook or any one else knows.

Take my word for it." "Rats!" ejaculated Wickersham, briefly.

"I tell you what," he added presently: "if he don't sell us that land he'll never get a cent out of it.

No one else will ever take it.