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He held himself watchful, intent, awaiting the opportunity which chance should bring. Chance seemed by no means in haste. The end of the fourth year found Newmark puzzled. Orde had paid regularly the interest on his notes. How much he had been able to save toward the redemption of the notes themselves his partner was unable to decide.
But at this point Newmark broke into the discussion. "Have you a pack of cards?" he asked in his dry, incisive manner. Somebody rummaged in a turkey and produced the remains of an old deck. "I don't believe this is a full deck," said he, "and I think they's part of two decks in it." "I only want three," assured Newmark, reaching his hand for the pack.
This contained an exquisite Colonial four-poster, with a lowboy and dresser to match, and was papered and carpeted in accordance with these, its chief ornaments. Newmark bathed in the adjoining bathroom, shaved carefully between the two wax lights which were his whim, and dressed in what were then known as "swallow-tail" clothes.
Joe never was much of a society bug." It was on the tip of Carroll's tongue to reply that "society bugs" were not the only sort she could appreciate, but she refrained. She had begun to realise the extent of her influence over her husband's opinion. Newmark did not live at the hotel.
"Where are you going?" asked Orde quietly. Newmark steadied himself with an effort. "I'm going to get myself a drink in my bedroom," he snapped. "Any objections?" "No," replied Orde. "None. After you get your drink, come back. I want to talk to you." Newmark snarled at him: "You needn't be afraid I'll run away. How'd I get out of town?" "I know it wouldn't pay you to run away," said Orde.
You said yesterday they'd probably stand us in seventy-five thousand dollars. Even at a dollar profit, we'd have to drive seventy-five million before we got a cent back. And, of course, we've got to agree to drive for a little less than they could themselves." "That's so," agreed Orde, his crest falling. "However," said Newmark briskly, as he arose, "there's good money in it, as you say.
"You ain't a tin horn yourself?" Newmark laughed briefly. "Not I," said he. "I learned a lot of those tricks from a travelling magician in college." During this demonstration Orde had sat well in the background, his chin propped on his hand, watching intently all that was going on. After the comment and exclamations following the exposure of the method had subsided, he spoke.
"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.
Newmark broke in quickly before Orde could speak. "I've told Mr. Heinzman," said he, "that we would sort and deliver the rest of his logs for two dollars a thousand." "That will be about it," agreed Orde. "But," exploded Heinzman, "that is as much as you agreet to drive and deliffer my whole cut!" "Precisely," said Newmark. "Put I haf all the eggspence of driving the logs myself.
Newmark sent word that a sudden fit of sickness had confined him to the house. "Didn't think of a little thing like piles," said Orde to himself. "Well, that's hardly fair. Joe couldn't have realised when he left here just how bad things were." For two days, as has been said, nothing happened. Then Orde decided to break out a channel through the jam itself.
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