"You see, you do know where I stand, after all.

If I let it slide, the way you want me to, that's exactly what you'd be thinking after awhile--that I never had squared up with your dad.

You'd look down on me, and so would your father and your mother.

They'd always be afraid I'd do some fool thing and sting your dad again for a few thousand." "Well, of all the crazy talk! And I've gone to the trouble of coaxing dad to give you a share in the Rolling R instead of putting it in his will for me.

And dad's going to do it--" "Oh, no, he isn't.