[Vandover and the Brute by Frank Norris]@TWC D-Link bookVandover and the Brute CHAPTER Fifteen 65/68
"Maybe you might regret it afterward.
Don't you want to take two or three days to think it over ?" "No." "Sure now ?" persisted Geary. "But I've _got_ to sell before three days," answered Vandover. "Otherwise he'll want ten thousand." "That's a fact," admitted the other.
"Well," he went on, "if your mind's made up, why--we can go right ahead.
As I say, there's no reason for waiting; better take up Wade while he's in the mood for it.
You see, he hasn't signed any proposition as yet, and he might go back on us." Vandover drew a long breath and got up slowly, heavily, from the couch, saying: "What's the odds to me what I sell for? _I_ don't get the money." "Well, what do you say if we go right down to a notary's office and put this thing right through," Geary suggested. "Come on, then." "Have you got your abstract here, the abstract of the block ?" Vandover nodded.
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