I would not sell the place to anybody." Alton stood up.

"You shall have a cheque to-morrow," he said.
They had mounted within another minute, and Alton glanced with a little smile at his comrade as they rode on again.
"That," said Seaforth, "was in a sense a somewhat effective scene, but I'm not sure which of us should go to the business school." Alton laughed.

"I don't often blunder when I deal with a man," said he.

"Callender and I wouldn't have been better pleased, or five dollars richer, if we'd talked all day." Seaforth nodded, though his eyes twinkled.

"You don't seem so confident about the other sex ?" he said.
Alton gravely pointed to a towering fir.