"Here's another thing.

Mr.Turner happened to know of this increase in the price of lumber, and he hurried down there to a man who didn't know about that, and bought it.
If Mr.Gifford had known of the new rates, Mr.Turner could not have bought those trees at the price he did, could he ?" "Certainly not," agreed her father.

"He would have had to pay nearly a thousand dollars more for them." "Then that wasn't right of Mr.Turner," she asserted.
"My child," said Mr.Stevens wearily, "all business is conducted for a profit, and the only way to get it is by keeping alive and knowing things that other people will find out to-morrow.

Sam Turner is the shrewdest and the livest young man I've met in many a day, and he's square as a die.

I'd take his word on any proposition; wouldn't you ?" "Yes, I think I'd take his word," she admitted, and very positively, after mature deliberation.