You're too much a kid.

You ain't grown up yet, and I couldn't depend on you like I can on Bill.

But I could strain a point, and pay you a thousand dollars a year, and split the debt into three or four yearly payments.

In four years," he pointed out relentlessly, "you might come clear--with hard work and good luck." "On the other hand, when Mary V marries with our consent she gets a third interest in the Rolling R.

Her husband will naturally fall into a pretty good layout.