The bondholders went thoroughly into the subject with me of what they could afford to pay you for your stock and a decision was finally reached to give you ten thousand dollars for your interest in the company.

Considering everything, that's exceedingly liberal.

I'm authorized to draw a check for that amount to your order when you've assigned the shares." "Not enough," Lee replied.

He sat down at his desk, lifted his feet to a window ledge, and held a match to his pipe.
"That's the limit." "It's not enough; I need more." "What you need and what you'll take are two different things," the other stated, sarcastically.
"Go higher," Lee said, with his gaze upon the window.
"Not a cent!" "I owe McDonnell twenty thousand that has gone into the canal.

I've put in my ranch, and land I traded for it, and months of work and organization--value twenty thousand; and I figure my present control of things worth twenty thousand more.