As it is--I default the note--Markel attaches all I have left, which is the mine.

The mine is sold to satisfy my indebtedness.

Markel buys it in legally, upheld by the law--and acquires, ROBS me of it, and--" "And so," said Jimmie Dale musingly, "you were going to shoot yourself ?" Wilbur straightened up, and there was something akin to pathetic grandeur in the set of the old shoulders as they squared back.
"Yes!" he said, in a low voice.

"And shall I tell you why?
Even if, which is not likely, there was something reverting to me over the purchase price, it would be a paltry thing compared with the mine.

I have a wife and children.