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"What's biting you now?" he deht before and above hiood plan, if you can prove that it ork, what

is the necessity for 'wheedling' anybody? Why not state what you

propose in plain, unequivocal terms, and let the dear, old soul,

who has done so much for us already, decide what she will do?"

"That's what I meant! That's all I meant!" he cried

"In that case, 'wheedle' is a queer word to use"

"I believe you'd throw up the whole thing; I believe you'd let the

chance to be a rich woers, if it all

depended on your saying only one word you thought wasn't quite

straight," he cried, half in assertion, half in question

"I honour you in that belief," said Kate "Idown? You won't have anything to

do with it?" he cried, plunging into stoop-shouldered,despair

"Oh, I didn't SAY that!" said Kate "Give ot to know that there isn't a snare in it, frorade of the creek bed Have you investigated

that? Is your ravine long enough and wide enough to daet your power, and yet not back water on

the road, and the faret strong enough power froee! I never thought about that!" he cried

"And if it would work, did you figure the cost of a da and ers in iot THAT, too! But that wouldn't cost