[The Boy Trapper by Harry Castlemon]@TWC D-Link bookThe Boy Trapper CHAPTER V 23/23
It is his, and he ought to have it." "Wal, I'll tell you what I'll do: I'll pay him outen them fifty dollars we're goin' to get fur them quail.
An', Davy, if you'll give me the money you've got in your pocket, I'll hide it with mine whar nobody can't find it, and then it'll be safe." "It is safe now." "But if I go halves with you, you had oughter go halves with me. Let's go out to them traps agin, and we kin talk it over while we're workin'." "I am not going to do anything more with those traps." "You hain't give it up, have you? You ain't goin' to let them fifty dollars slip through your fingers, be you ?" "What encouragement have I to do anything after what you said this morning? I have made other arrangements.
I am going to work over at the General's." David expected that his brother would be very angry when he heard this, but if he was, he did not show it.
He looked steadily at David for a moment and then turned and walked around the corner of the cabin out of sight..
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