For various reasons I have not obtruded business matters upon you, but I will now state that it is vitally important that we realize enough from the beef shipments to make our fall payment on the mortgage and pay the interest on the remainder.

It would be a great advantage if we could also clear enough for the next year's running expenses.

Have you any idea how much beef there will be to ship this fall ?" "I figured on sixty or seventy cars," said Billy.

Instinctively he had pulled himself straight in the saddle to meet this fresh emergency.
Dill, with a pencil and an old letter from his pocket, was doing some rapid figuring.

"With beef so low, I fear I shall be obliged to ask you to hold this herd for two or three weeks.