You can't leave except when you're given permission and some one comes to take your place.

We send up your supplies and mail once a week on a pack horse.

Your pay will be seventy dollars a month.
"I don't want you to take it unless you feel pretty sure you can stick.

I'm tired of sending men up there for a week or two and having them phoning in here a dozen times a day about how lonesome it is, then quitting cold.

We can't undertake to furnish you with amusement, and we are too busy to spend the day gossiping with you over the phone just to help you pass the time." He snapped his mouth together as though he meant every word of it and a great deal more.