There are so many things that can whip us, that--" Houston laughed shortly--"we might as well be gamblers all the way through.

We'll never fulfill the contract, even with the machinery, unless we can get the use of the lake and a flume to the mill.

We may be able to keep it up for a month or two, but that will be all.

The expense will eat us up.

But one chance is no greater than the other, and personally, I'm at the point where I don't care." "_Oui_! Ba'teese, he have nothing.