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Updated: June 19, 2025
I know what you paid for his half-interest in this business, it's set out in the assignment. It was three thousand dollars. "Think of it, man, three thousand dollars to Ordez for a wholesale, omnibus assignment of everything.
Then, finally, with no change or quaver in his voice, he put his query. "Where is Ordez?" "Where?" echoed my father, and he rose. "Why, Zindorf, he is on his way here." And he extended his arm toward the open window. The big man lifted his head and looked out at the men and horses now clearly visible on the distant road. "Who are these people," he said, "and why do they come?"
"God knows him, Zindorf, and I know him!... The man who murdered Ordez made a fatal blunder... He used a sign of God in the service of the devil and he is ruined!" The big man stepped slowly backward into the room, while my father's voice, filling the big empty spaces of the house, followed after him. "You are lost, Zindorf! Satan is insulted, and God is outraged! You are lost!"
But the elegant young man was moved by a lure no less potent. And his anxiety, for the time, suppressed the evidences of liquor. "I'll take the risk on the title, Zindorf. You and Ordez were partners in this traffic. Ordez gives you a general assignment of all slaves on hand for three thousand dollars and lights out of the country. He leaves his daughter here among the others.
He stood up and in his anxiety the effect of the liquor faded out. "I've waited on your promise, Zindorf. You said that some day, when Ordez was hard-pressed he would sell her for money, even if she was his natural daughter. You were right; you knew Ordez. You have got an assignment of all the slaves in possession, in the partnership, and Ordez has cleared out of the country.
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