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"I'm afraid we'll just ride over them if we hit them too slow," suggested Marsh. Orde looked at his watch. "We'll be late for the mail unless we hurry," said he. Marsh whirled the spokes of his wheel over and rang the engine-room bell. The water churned white behind, the tug careened. "Vat you do! Stop!" cried Heinzman from one of the boats. Orde stuck his head from the pilot-house door.
"He instructed me to begin suit in foreclosure immediately." "I don't understand this," said Orde. Lambert shook his head blandly. Orde thought for a moment. "Where's your telephone?" he demanded abruptly. He tried in vain to get Heinzman at his house.
Therefore at once his stock in the Boom Company would become the property of Newmark and Orde. Newmark would profess himself unable to raise enough from the firm to pay the mortgage. The second mortgage from which he had drawn his personal loan would render it impossible for the firm to raise more money on the land. A foreclosure would follow. Through Heinzman, Newmark would buy in.
The drivers kept a sharp lookout for "H" logs, and whenever possible thrust them aside into eddies and backwaters. This, of course, merely made work for the sackers Heinzman had left above the rear. Soon they were in charge of a very fair little drive of their own. Their lot was not enviable.
"Heinzman died of smallpox at four o'clock this afternoon," said Orde. Newmark did not alter his attitude nor his expression, but his face slowly went gray. For a full minute he sat absolutely motionless, his breath coming and going noisily through his contracted nostrils. Then he arose gropingly to his feet, and started toward one of the two doors leading from the room.
"Why? "Then they might obstruct the river?" "Certainly." "I thought so!" cried Newmark, with as near an approach to exultation as he ever permitted himself. "Now, just one other thing: aren't Heinzman's rollways below most of the others?" "Yes, I believe they are," said Orde. "And, of course, it was agreed, as usual, that Heinzman was to break out his own rollways?" "I see," said Orde slowly.
"In the first place," said he, producing a bundle of papers, "I have the note and the mortgage in my possession." "Whence Heinzman will shortly rescue them, as soon as I get to see him," countered Newmark. "You acknowledge that I can force Heinzman; and you can hardly refuse him." "If you force Heinzman, he'll land you," Orde pointed out. "There is Canada for me, with no extradition.
Then the two girls could see plainly the fan-like cat's-paws skittering here and there as though panic-stricken by the swooping, invisible monster that pursued them. Carroll and Mina Heinzman had a good time. They liked each other very much, and always saw a great deal to laugh at in the things about them and in the subjects about which they talked.
A group of three small log-cabins marked the Johnson, and later the Heinzman, camp. From the chimneys a smoke arose. Twenty or thirty rivermen lounged about the sunny side of the largest structure. They had evidently just arrived, for some of their "turkeys" were still piled outside the door.
Newmark laughed in amusement. "Why shouldn't I? Of course Heinzman blabbed. You couldn't have got it all anywhere else." Orde arose to his feet, and half sat again on the arm of his chair. "Now I'll tell you what we will do in this matter," said he crisply. But Newmark unexpectedly took the aggressive. "We'll follow," said he, "the original programme, as laid down by myself.
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