[The Long Shadow by B. M. Bower]@TWC D-Link bookThe Long Shadow CHAPTER XVII 25/27
The bawling made speech difficult at any distance, and the dust sent him coughing away. "I think, William," he said, when he was again beside Billy, "I shall leave this matter to your own judgment.
What I want is to get every cent possible out of the beef we ship; the details I am content to leave with you, for in my ignorance I should probably botch the job.
I suppose we can arrange it so that, in case the market rises suddenly, you can rush in a trainload at short notice ?" "Give me two weeks to get action on the range stuff, and I can have a trainload on the way to Chicago so quick it'll make your head whirl. I'll make it a point to be ready on short notice.
And before we pull out I'll give yuh a kinda programme uh the next three or four weeks, so yuh can send a man out and he'll have some show uh finding us.
And I won't bring in another herd till you send word--only yuh want to bear in mind that I can't set out there on a pinnacle till snow flies, waiting for prices to raise in Chicago.
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