See!" Far to one side, a great mass of lumber reared itself against the sky, twisted and warped, the offal of the drying kilns.

Ba'tiste shrugged his shoulders.
"So! When the heat, eet is made too quick, the lumber twist.

Eet is so easy--when one wants some one to be tired and quit!" To quit! It was all plain to Barry Houston now.

Thayer had tried to buy the mill when the elder Houston was alive.

He had failed.