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Matt concluded that he would retain his job as master of the tug Sea Fox for a few months say six and then ask Cappy Ricks for twenty thousand dollars, which amount would by that time be to his credit on the Blue Star books by reason of his half-interest in the seventy-five-dollar-a-day profit he and Cappy had annexed when rechartering the steamer Unicorn.
"I've been very busy to-day." "Not working?" "No, getting ready to. I've bought out an established business." "You said you disliked business." "Not this kind. You were right about Isburn. He didn't mean what he said about giving you a half-interest in the agency." "I'm not disappointed. I didn't think he did. Why should he pay me for returning what I took from him as a professional joke?"
There has been trading in the islands, and a short and fortunate little campaign on the stock-market through Sydney brokers, and there has been, more profitable than anything else, the salvaging of the Brent Interisland Company's steamer Pailula by Farringdon's schooner, in which Harber had purchased a half-interest; so the partners are, on the whole, rather well fixed.
A tall young man sauntered to the edge of the little group in the square and listened with a smile which indicated cynical half-interest. An automobile halted on the opposite side of the group. A big man sat alone in the tonneau. He began to scowl as he listened. The young man continued to smile. The big man was plainly a personality.
Eldorado was one of these feeders, and many men, after locating on it, turned their backs upon their claims and never gave them a second thought. One man sold a half-interest in five hundred feet of it for a sack of flour. Other owners wandered around trying to bunco men into buying them out for a song. And then Eldorado "showed up."
That was the reason why the Runt was doing his conscientious duty this fine morning. "Clay ain't one o' the common run of cowpunchers, ma'am. You bet you, by jollies, he ain't. Clay he owns a half-interest in the B-in-a-Box. O' course it ain't what he's got, but what he is that counts. He's the best darned pilgrim ever I did see."
"It's not nerve, Clara; it's the truth. Ruby's a good girl in her way." "What about you ain't your life to be thought of? Ain't it enough she was married off with enough money for her husband to buy a half-interest in a ladies' ready-to-wear store out there?"
In his mind he was building a castle in which he was the Lord and the story-teller was the Lady. He was awakened from his dream by Mary's query: "Didn't I fool him nicely?" "You certainly did. And so he's going to give you a half-interest in the business. If he keeps his word" "Which I very much doubt," interrupted Mary. "I'll buy the other half and we'll be partners."
Now, you know all, and I await my discharge." Mr. Isburn looked serious. "Miss Dana, I see but one matter to be arranged now, and that is your half-interest in the business. You know I told you that if you found the ruby I would take you as a partner." "Oh, that's all a joke," cried Miss Dana. "What I did was for fun.
"H'm!" observed Luke, smacking his lips with a longing look at the cake, "it wouldn't take me long to get rid of it!" "Hungry?" insinuated Andy. "Desperately. I'd be almost tempted to sell a half-interest in the chicken for a good square meal." "You shall have one without any such sacrifice," declared Andy. "Come along." They found the clown's tent empty.
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