I am working." But Ferdy did not heed either this warning or the look on Gordon's face.
His game had now a double zest: he could sting Gordon and worry Rhodes.
"I don't see why my old man was such a fool as to want such a dinged lonesome old place for, anyhow," he said, with a little laugh.

"I am going to give it away when I get it." Gordon's face whitened and flamed again, and his eyes began to snap.
"Then it's the only thing you ever would give away," said Mr.Rhodes, pointedly, without raising his eyes from his work.
Gordon took heart.

"Why did you come down here if you feel that way about it ?" "Because my old man offered me five thousand if I'd come.

You didn't think I'd come to this blanked old place for nothin', did you?
Not much, sonny." "Not if he knew you," Said Mr.Rhodes, looking across at him.

"If he knew you, he'd know you never did anything for nothing, Ferdy." Ferdy flushed.