In fact, so far we're nothing more than three remarkably rash adventurers--little men of no account--who have set ourselves up against the big professional company jobbers.

We have won the first round, but that was fought with nature.

It's comparatively easy to face weariness and wet and frost when one is used to it, but to fence with the money handler is quite a different matter.

To cry our wares in the market is a thing to which we're wholly new." He had said all that was required to make the situation reasonably clear to a girl of her understanding.

The battle was less than half won, and it seemed that he would not claim her unless he came out victor, which was, in some respects, as she would have it.