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"It will be too late," said he, suddenly and, as it seemed to her, irrelevantly. Then she thought that she understood. "He's going home in a few days, for the Christmas holidays," she stated. "Possibly then Ruth will I'm planning for us all to be at uncle's, you with us." "Gretzinger wasn't in my mind." "You said 'too late'," she pursued. "Naturally I supposed your reference to be of them."
Now I must run along, or the ladies will be up in arms and not my arms, either." "I don't see half enough of you," Ruth said, giving him a pat on the cheek with the gloved finger that now wore a diamond solitaire. To Mr. Gretzinger she continued, "If you get us home without a wetting, you may stay and eat with us; but if you don't, why, you can go straight on to town."
"More than that, the water will undercut wooden drops, then rip the devil out of the canal along the ridge, making the cost of rebuilding ten times what it is now and very likely causing a water shortage in the middle of an irrigating season so that the farmers' crops will be a dead loss. Fine! I suppose you didn't allow yourself to think that far." "Why should I?" Gretzinger retorted.
The man by the stove glared at the seated contractor during the prolonged period of study as if he hoped his look would consume him. "How much?" he questioned a second time, impatiently. Pat looked up at Gretzinger from under his bushy eyebrows with a steely glint showing. The lines of his weather-beaten face had hardened. "I don't like you," he stated. "I don't like you at all.
And to this dreadful cold and snow, thought Lee, Imogene would have been left deliberately by Ruth Gardner and Gretzinger! Carrigan bade the others roll up in their blankets and get what sleep they could while he and Bryant tended the fire. Lee saw that Dave was warm and well-wrapped.
"Everything so far as my affairs go," he replied. "Work stops on the canal to-morrow. That will result, of course, in the water right lapsing and in the ditch never being finished or used, except under the circumstance of my handing over my interest gratis to Gretzinger and the bondholders.
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