The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-12-22

"lf You Want to Go to Law-Sail In"
a wheel until l tell you to go ahead.
So your contract, If you've got one
doesn't amount to a hill Of beans"
THAT point may make a nice little
question for the courts to decide" he
snapped. But l don't want to 60 to
law about this thing, and neither do
you. AS a matter of fact, you haven't
any money to throw away In a legal
scrap. You make M a deed to fifty
one per cent of the Cinnabar property.
just as it stands, and then you may go
back East and enjoy yourself playing
The less you dig In my private gar
den patch, the better we shall get
along" l told him.
He was silent for a moment. He
had picked up a bit Of iron rod and
was tracing hieroglyphic figures with
1t In the dust of the shop floor. Pres
emily he looked up with a sort of mock
ing leer.
Been trying to carry sentimental
water on both shoulders, haven't you2
I'm telling you right now, BroughtOn,
It's no use. I filed on the little Blue
eyes claim over yonder in TwOmbly's
cabin a long, long time before you ever
saw or heard Of it."
That remark Of his carried things
over the edge for me.
"See here, Bullerton," / said, and I
suppose l stuck out my jaw at him as
people say / do when I'm beginning
to feel ugly, there are limits, and
I'll pay you the compliment of assum-
Ing that you are not quite a born fool.
We are going to leave Miss Twombly
out of it; completely and absolutely
out of it."
you may but l shan't," he grinned
back at me. I'm point of fact, my
dear fellow, now that 1 come to think
Of it. you'll have to leave her out"
"Not for anything you may say or
do, or leave unsaid or undone."
"Yes, you will and for something
that I may say. And l guess this is
as good a time as any to mention it.
Have you forgotten that you have ad-
vertised yourself in this Out-of-the-way
corner Of the world rather successful
ly as n of two things: a pretty
dangerous sort of l%unatic, ora GRIM
inal? AS a matter Of fact, the rail-
road detectives have been looking high,
low and level for you ever since you
stole that inspection motor at the An
gels platform and got it smashed"
"Twombly knows about that; and
SO does Miss Twombly." l cut in.
"They wouldn't give you away, Of
course; in a certain sense you are
Twombly's guest, and in another you're
his employer. But you'll notice that
neither Of these restrictions apply to
me. Now, perhaps, you can understand
just why you are obliged, in ordinary
prudence. to leave the girl out OF 1t
and why I am not so obliged"
"Miss Twombly, herself, has the
casting vote on that" is what I flung
at him.
"She has already voted" he said
coOlly. Then: You're not In the
game, Broughton you don't hold any
thing higher than a seven-spot, and
you are bucking a straight flush. Do
you take fifty thousand and vanish?
That is the one live question Of the
moment"
mo"
"very well; I'll give you another
day to think 1t over; but I'm warning
you here and now that the price will
shrink. 1t Is fifty thousand today, say
up to sunset: tomorrow 1t will be for
" thousand"
I slid from the anvil and half nm
consciously picked up the ~blacksmith's
hand-hammer.
"YOu 60 straight to HI" I said ;
and at that he left me.
sat down to try once more to think
things out to some sort Of an action
focus. Should I take Bullert0n's If
ty thousand and Quiti Common sense
said Yes. spelling It with a capital and
underscoring It for emphasis. What
was the ~ In hanging ont Hadn't