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Then abruptly a ravine yawned before him, and he let go just in time to save himself a fall. The wanigan, trailing her rope, drifted away. Nor did she stop until she had overtaken the jam. There, her momentum reduced by the closer crowding of the logs, she slowed down enough so that Newmark and the cookees managed to work her to the bank and make her fast.
We'll have to live here, won't we?" "Also," went on Newmark calmly, "I'll buy the supplies to the best advantage I can, and see that they get here in good shape. I have our preliminary lists, and as fast as you think you need anything, send a requisition in to me, and I'll see to it." "And I?" inquired Orde. "You'll get right at the construction.
Only at the very last, when it would seem that some of them must surely he caught, did the river-jacks, using their peavy-shafts as balancing poles, zigzag calmly to shore across the plunging logs. Newmark seemed impressed. "That was a close shave," said he to the last man ashore. "What?" inquired the riverman. "Didn't see it. Somebody fall down?"
"So that is what you think!" he shouted at them. "That's the sort of men you think we are! I'll show you you cannot come into honest men's offices to insoolt them by such insinuations!" He tore the contract in pieces and threw it in the waste basket. "Get oudt of here!" he cried. Newmark arose as dry and precise as ever. Orde was going red and white by turns, and his hands twitched.
"How did you know that?" cried Taylor in astonishment. "I didn't know, Frank; I just guessed." "Well, you made a good guess. It was Newmark. He'd tied up the land in this trumped-up investigation so you could not borrow on it." "How did he find out I owned any land?" asked Orde. "That I couldn't tell you. Must have been a leak somewhere." "Quite likely," said Orde calmly.
They made money at this, too, but the burden of debt necessitated by new ventures, constantly weighted by the heavy interest demanded at that time, kept affairs on the ragged edge. In addition, both Orde and Newmark were more inclined to extension of interests than to "playing safe." The assets gained in one venture were promptly pledged to another.
That's the only reason you borrowed the seventy-five thousand on your own account; so we couldn't borrow it to save ourselves." "It strikes me you are interesting but inconclusive," said Newmark, as Orde paused again. "That sort of thing is somewhat of a facer," went on Orde without the slightest attention to the interjection.
Nobody would go on my bond for that amount." "Mine either," said Newmark. "We'll just have to let them go and drive ahead without them. I only hope they won't spread the idea. Better get those other contracts signed up as soon as we can." With this object in view, Orde started out early the next morning, carrying with him the duplicate contracts on which Newmark had been busy.
"I think, incidentally, it saved my life." "Now what are you driving at?" asked Orde. "Listen, this is funny: Newmark had me kidnapped by one of his men, and lugged off to a little valley in the mountains. The idea was to keep me there until after the trial, so my testimony would not appear. You see, none of our side knew I had that testimony.
Newmark and Orde means something to these fellows now. We can have anything we want, if we just reach out for it." His thin figure, ordinarily slightly askew, had straightened; his steel-gray, impersonal eyes had lit up behind the bowed glasses and were seeing things beyond the wall at which they gazed. Orde looked up at him with a sudden admiration. "You're the brains of this concern," said he.
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