Then, as if trivial speech had made easier what he had in mind to say, he turned resolutely toward the other.

"Yuh expect to meet old man Robinson there, don't yuh ?" "That was the arrangement, as I understood it" "And you're thinking strong of buying him out ?" "His place appeals to me more than any of the others, and--yes, it seems to me that I can't do better." Mr.Dill turned the collar of his coat up a bit farther--or fancied he did so--and looked questioningly at Billy.
"Yuh gave me leave to advise yuh where yuh needed it," Billy said almost challengingly, "and I'm going to call yuh, right here and now.
If yuh take my advice yuh won't go making medicine with old Robinson any more.

He'll do yuh, sure.

He's asking yuh double what the outfit's worth.

They _all_ are.