"And just to get right _down_ to business, and show you we're not all talk, I want to give you a little retainer fee.

I'm sorry it isn't larger, but it'll grow, I hope." He drew a goodly wallet from his breast pocket, and counted out ten one-hundred-dollar bills, which he threw down carelessly on the pine needles in front of Dan Anderson.

"Is that satisfactory ?" he asked.
"Yes," said the latter; but he did not take up the money.
"Oh, there'll be more," suggested Mr.Ellsworth.

"This business ought to net you between five and ten thousand dollars this year.

It might mean more than that if we got into town without a fight." "That would be about the only way you would get in at all," and Dan Anderson smiled incomprehensibly.
"Exactly! And now, since you are our counsel--" Barkley spoke with an increased firmness--"we want to know your idea on the right-of-way question.