I'll bet the pair of 'em was trying to get this timber lot away from ye.

Don't ye have no dealin's with 'em.

Don't want no truck with them kind of cattle, and I'll tell ye right now that if they show their yaller faces 'round here agin, I'll set my Henry on 'em for keeps." Mrs.
Shafto gasped for breath preparatory to entering on a fresh tirade, when Tom Gray, embracing the opportunity, got in a question.
"Suppose you tell us what the row was about.

What was it ?" he asked.
"The varmints tried to bribe me, that's what." "Bribe you!" exclaimed the Overlanders in chorus.
"That's what I said." "Why didn't you take it ?" demanded Hippy.

"That was easy money." "To do what ?" questioned Elfreda, her professional interest instantly aroused.
"To find out what ye paid for the section and just what ye opined ye'd do with it.