If you are in favor of buying, we can have immediate possession; ten days after the deal is closed, I think the man said." Billy tilted his hat-brim a bit to keep the sun from his eyes, and considered gravely the proposition.

It was a great relief to discover that his fears were groundless and that it was only another scheme of Dilly's; another snare which he, perhaps, would be compelled, in Dill's interest, to move aside.

He put the reins down between his knees and gripped them tightly while he made a cigarette.

It was not until he was pinching the end shut that he spoke.
"If it's as you say"-- and he meant no offense--"it looks like a good thing, all right.

But yuh can't most always tell.