[The Long Shadow by B. M. Bower]@TWC D-Link bookThe Long Shadow CHAPTER VIII 3/8
It looks to me like they think you're just out here to get rid of your pile and the bigger chunk they can pry loose from yuh the better.
I was going to put yuh next before this, only yuh didn't seem to take to any uh the places real serious, so it wasn't necessary." "I realize that one cannot buy land and cattle for nothing," Dill chuckled.
"It seemed to me that, compared with the prices others have asked, Mr.Robinson's offer was very reasonable." "It may be lower than Jacobs and Wilter, but that don't make it right." "Well, there were the Two Sevens"-- he meant the Seventy-Seven, but that was a mere detail--"I didn't get to see the owner, you know.
I have written East, however, and should hear from him in a few days." "Yuh ain't likely to do business with _that_ layout, because I don't believe they'd sell at any price.
Old Robinson is the washout yuh want to ride around at present; I ain't worrying about the rest, right now. He's a smooth old devil, and he'll do yuh sure." To this Mr.Dill made no reply whatever.
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