[Two Boys in Wyoming by Edward S. Ellis]@TWC D-Link bookTwo Boys in Wyoming CHAPTER XV 13/14
I'll guarantee that he shall keep his part of the agreement in spirit and letter." It was on Hazletine's tongue to ask who should guarantee the honesty of Bill Tozer, but for reasons of his own he kept back the question. "Wal, now, to git down to bus'ness, as you say; s'pose Doctor Greenwood sends word that he won't or can't raise the money you ask--what then ?" Tozer shrugged his shoulders suggestively. "Don't forget that I am guessing all the way through.
I should say, however, that Doctor Greenwood would never see his boy again." "I'm afraid he never will, as the matter now stands." "That depends on the parent.
If he is not rich, the father of that young man over yonder is, and he would let him have the money." "No doubt he'd do that very thing; but s'pose the thing is all fixed and carried out as you've been saying--does Motoza fancy there won't be some accounts to be squared with him afterwards ?" "You know what a cunning fellow he is.
He wouldn't go through with the job until he was guaranteed against any punishment for his part in it." "The father of the younker would give the pledge, and he'd keep it, too, if he's anything like his son.
But what 'bout Hank Hazletine ?" "He would have to make the same promise--that is, I presume he would.
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