"Be ready to start with us to-morrow.

I'll take you at thirty dollars; but if I don't get my value out of you, we'll have to part." "No fear of that, sir," replied the other, in a tone of keen satisfaction.
When they got outside, Edgar looked at George with a smile.
"I'm glad you engaged the fellow," he said; "but considering that you'll have to teach him, were you not a little rash ?" "I'll find out by and by." George paused, and continued gravely: "It's a big adventure these people make.

Think of it--the raising of the passage money by some desperate economy, the woman left behind with hardly enough to keep her a month or two, the man's fierce anxiety to find some work! When I saw how he was watching me, I felt I had to hire him." "Just so," responded Edgar.

"I suppose I ought to warn you that doing things of the kind may get you into trouble some day; but cold-blooded prudence never did appeal to me." He took one of the chairs in front of the building and filled his pipe before he continued: "We'll sit here a while, and then we might as well stroll across the plain.

The general-room doesn't strike me as an attractive place to spend the evening in." An hour later they left the tall elevators and straggling town behind, and after brushing through a belt of crimson flowers, they followed the torn-up black trail that led into the waste.