But if I could awwange fo' an option----" "You pay me twenty thousand, cash, in this room, at eight o'clock to-night, and I'll give you an option for one week at forty thousand," persisted the morose miner.

"After that, the price goes up." "Fifty pehcentum down on an option! This is uttehly unpwecedented, y' know.

I must wemonstwate, weally!" "It's all the option you'll get from me, you jackanapes." He snapped contemptuous fingers under Wyatt's nose.
Wyatt buttoned his coat with dignity.

"Weally, this pahsses all bounds!" he ejaculated.

"Gentlemen, I accept this--ah--puhson's offeh.
I cannot enduah such an associwate.