Now what have you to say for yourself, Tom Gray ?" "I was waiting to inquire what sort of a deal you made." "Say, folks! Had it not been for Willy Horse I should not have got the property at all.

That chief with the iron toes is a shrewd old duffer.
He has owned the property for some years, and all that time the Hiram Dusenbery Company has been trying, by fair means or otherwise, to buy it of him, but Old Iron-Toe put the price so high that they preferred to wait, hoping that when he got hard up he might be willing to sell for less." "Did he know that timber-thieves had been helping themselves to trees ?" questioned Elfreda.
"No.

Willy told him.

Willy saw the chief first and the deal really was made before I even saw the old fellow.

Well, we smoked a pipe of peace together and he didn't say a word for a whole hour after I was introduced.