They had waited long enough to have their assays made and had completed their first shipment to the smelter.

There was no necessity that they buy the Blue Poppy mine.

Therefore, was it simply another trick to break him, to lead him up to a point of high expectations, then, with a laugh at his disappointment, throw him down again?
His shoulders straightened as they reached the outside air, and he moved close to Harry as he told him his conjectures.

The Cornishman bobbed his head.
"I never thought of it that way!" he agreed.

"But it could explain a lot of things.