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Heinzman sat down on the nail keg, almost immediately arose, walked up and down two or three times, and resumed his seat. Orde looked at him curiously. He was half dressed, without a collar, his thin hair unkempt. The usual bright colour of his cheeks had become livid, and the flesh, ordinarily firm and elastic, had fallen in folds and wrinkles.
"Heinzman said he'd buy some of our stock. He seems to think we have a pretty good show." Newmark paused, his potato half-way to his plate. "Kind of him," said he after a moment. "Did he sign a contract?" "It wasn't made out," Orde reminded him. "I've the memoranda here. We'll make it out to-night. I am to bring it in Monday." "I see we're hung up here over Sunday," observed Newmark.
He thought it the most delicious smell in the world; and so continued to think it for many years until the nitros displaced the old-fashioned compounds. Four times Mr. Newmark repeated his initial performance; then stepped aside. "Heinzman to shoot; Wellman on deck!" announced the scorer. Mr. Heinzman was already at the mark; and young Wellman arose and began to break open a box of shells. Mr.
I suppose I'll have old Heinzman on my hands, though." "Why; has he taken it?" "No; but he will. Emotional old German fool. Rushed right in when he heard his daughter was sick. Couldn't keep him out. And he's been with her or near her ever since." "Then you think he's in for it?" "Sure to he," replied Dr. McMullen.
The man was about to make some stop-gap reply. He checked himself. "It's this way Bobby," he explained carefully. "The logs are cut 'way up the river ever so far and then they float down the river. Now, everybody has logs in the river Mr. Proctor and Mr. Heinzman and Mr. Welton and lots of people, and they're all mixed up together.
Don't care who deals it out," laughed Orde. "Thayer backed out, so finally I got the whole amount from Heinzman," Newmark announced. "Didn't know the old Dutchman was that well off," said Orde, after a slight pause. "Can't tell about those secretive old fellows," said Newmark. Orde hesitated. "I didn't know he was friendly enough to lend us money." "Business is business," replied Newmark.
"I haf been thinking of that bond," he began, waving a pudgy hand toward a seat, "and I haf been talking with Proctor." "Yes," said Orde hopefully. "I suppose you would not be prepared to gif a bond?" "I hardly think so." "Vell, suppose ve fix him this way," went on Heinzman, clasping his hands over his stomach and beaming through his spectacles.
It's called bribery in this State, and means penitentiary usually." "You don't take a joke," complained Heinzman. Newmark arose. "It's understood, then?" he asked. "How so I know you play fair?" asked the German. "You don't. It's a case where we have to depend more or less on each other.
"Why are you giving all this away if you were working for Heinzman?" "I'm working for you now," replied Charlie with dignity. "And, besides, you helped me out once yourself." "I guess it's a straight tip all right," said Orde to Denning, when the cook had resumed his place by the fire. "That's what I thought. That's why I brought him up."
For an instant the little craft seemed buried; but almost immediately the gleam of her black hull showed her plunging forward dauntlessly. "That's nothin'!" said the tug captain who had first spoken. "Wait 'til she gets outside!" The watchers streamed down from the pier for a better view. Carroll and Miss Heinzman followed.
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