There's a million and a half hung up in the woods." "But you have in your hands three million and a half, which under the present arrangement you get free of any charge whatever." "And we ought to get it," cried Daly.

"Great guns! Here we intend to saw this summer and quit.

We want to get in every stick of timber we own so as to be able to clear out of here for good and all at the close of the season; and now this condigned jobber ties us up for a million and a half." "It is exceedingly annoying," conceded Thorpe, "and it is a good deal of Radway's fault, I am willing to admit, but it's your fault too." "To be sure," replied Daly with the accent of sarcasm.
"You had no business entering into any such contract.

It gave him no show." "I suppose that was mainly his lookout, wasn't it?
And as I already told you, we had to protect ourselves." "You should have demanded security for the completion of the work.

Under your present agreement, if Radway got in the timber, you were to pay him a fair price.