28/50 What's the matter with the town that it don't have a first-class hotel, though ?" "-- Right over there to the left, Pedro. Heaps o' room for you and your crowd .-- Why, that's what I tell 'em all the time, Mr.Cheyne. There's big money in it, but I presume that don't affect you any. What we want is--" A heavy hand fell on his broadcloth shoulder, and the flushed skipper of a Portland coal-and-ice coaster spun him half round. |