"Radway could do it for less, because, for some strange reason which you yourself do not understand, a jobber can always log for less than a company." "We could have done it for four," insisted Daly stubbornly, "but get on.
What are you driving at?
My time's valuable." "Well, put her at four, then," agreed Thorpe.

"That makes your saw logs worth over twenty thousand dollars.

Of this value Radway added thirteen thousand.

You have appropriated that much of his without paying him one cent." Daly seemed amused.

"How about the million and a half feet of ours HE appropriated ?" he asked quietly.
"I'm coming to that.