CHAPTER XX.
HOW BILL FAVORED "HOME-GROWN INDUSTRIES" The building of the Swan Creek Church made a sensation in the country, and all the more that Bronco Bill was in command.
"When I put up money I stay with the game," he announced; and stay he did, to the great benefit of the work and to the delight of The Pilot, who was wearing his life out in trying to do several men's work.

It was Bill that organized the gangs for hauling stone for the foundation and logs for the walls.

It was Bill that assigned the various jobs to those volunteering service.

To Robbie Muir and two stalwart Glengarry men from the Ottawa lumber region, who knew all about the broadaxe, he gave the hewing down of the logs that formed the walls.

And when they had done, Bill declared they were "better 'an a sawmill." It was Bill, too, that did the financing, and his passage with Williams, the storekeeper from "the other side" who dealt in lumber and building material, was such as established forever Bill's reputation in finance.
With The Pilot's plans in his hands he went to Williams, seizing a time when the store was full of men after their mail matter.
"What do you think ov them plans ?" he asked innocently.
Williams was voluble with opinions and criticism and suggestions, all of which were gratefully, even humbly received.
"Kind ov hard to figger out jest how much lumber 'll go into the shack," said Bill; "ye see the logs makes a difference." To Williams the thing was simplicity itself, and, after some figuring, he handed Bill a complete statement of the amount of lumber of all kinds that would be required.
"Now, what would that there come to ?" Williams named his figure, and then Bill entered upon negotiations.
"I aint no man to beat down prices.