A. M. Chisholm

“ However, you just leave it to Tom and me. We'll pick out good men. We'll need eight or ten. The expense is a detail. We'll do this thing right. Tom will know where to get good men. When I've told him where we're going and what we're after "
"Hold on, Wally!" said Dunleath. "That's just what you must not do."
"Why not?" Mr. Fothergill demanded.
"Because, Wally, though competition may be the life of trade, it's poor from the standpoint of monopolists. We are monopolists—so far as information of this cache is concerned. ”

“ Altogether they must have cost him a pretty penny, and I don't think my uncle quite approved.
"I don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth," he said, "but for a young man that's broke you are going pretty strong."
"I'm not broke," Jim Dunleath laughed: "I have a fortune in furs."
"And a castle in Spain," said my uncle dryly.
"Yes—more than one," he replied, laughing, and as he said it his eyes sought Peggy's, and I thought she blushed a little, though I could not see what his Spanish property had to do with her. ”

“ It's far the best policy."
"Now, look here," said Dunleath emphatically, "I'm not going to take a single chance on this, Wally, and that goes. I want to have those furs in possession before the company gets wind of them. Then we can make our own terms. If somebody leaked we might have a rival outfit on the ground, and there might be all kinds of trouble."
"Something in that, perhaps," Mr. Fothergill admitted. "All right. I'll think up some plausible yarn. And we'll put ourselves in Tom's hands as to men. You can bet that any man he recommends will be good. ”

“ Any man that gets past Tom and me will be all right. Don't you worry. I'll look after our organization myself."
That, as I learned later, was a characteristic of Mr. Fothergill. He was prone, unasked, to take things into his own hands, and I think it was knowledge of this trait which had made Dunleath doubtful when he had received the telegram.
It was evident that we should never get Mr. Fothergill and his dunnage into a small canoe. And then he bought a quantity of supplies and tools. I solved the problem by getting a big canoe and two Indians to paddle it. ”

“ I don't want anybody told where we are going, or why."
"But old Tom is as honest as the sun and as close as a clam."
"That's the way he struck me. But all the same I want this kept among us three until we get on the ground."
"But, hang it!" Mr. Fothergill exclaimed impatiently. "We've got to give some reason for going into that country with such an outfit. Why not be frank with Ballou? ”

“ You make me tired. I don't care a darn what you were talking about. Mush! That's what it was. Going to pretend you are together by the river every night. Kid's tricks! You're the one that ought to be ashamed. ”