We'll have to take in a lot of acreage to cover this property, but it will be worth it.

I'm going to look after options right away.

I'm glad now I had already decided to stay another two weeks." Of course she was still angry with Sam, she reminded herself, but she was inexpressibly glad, somehow or other, to find that he was intending to stay two weeks longer, and was startled as she recognized that fact.
"It will take a lot of money, won't it, to build a hotel here ?" she asked, getting away from certain troublesome thoughts as quickly as she could.
"Yes, it will take a great deal," he admitted, as they turned to scramble down the ravine again.

"I should judge, however, that about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars would finance it." "But I thought, from something father once said, that you did not have so much money as that ?" "Bless you, no!" replied Sam, smiling.

"No indeed! I've enough to cover an option on this property and that's about all, now, since I'm tangled up so deeply with my Pulp Company, but I figure that I can make a quick turn on this property to help me out on the other thing.