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you satisfied with the terer split?”

“I’ to the ter to be any strip-lanced at Strick-lin standing in the doorway, listening and letting Dyson do all the talking “I suggest we dissolve this partnership aet it”

“She had so to do with this, didn’t she?” Tara accused “You were in favor of it until she came to see you this afternoon”

“Let’s leave Jessy out of this discussion” It was a quiet warning He refused to let her naus, but the decision was mine”

“We have a deal, Ty,” Dyson rened and legal”

“And I’ it Noe can either do it aaze leveled on thethe opportunity to avoid an unpleasant confrontation

“You’re not thinking straight, boy,” Dyson insisted “In e your mind now”

“It’s never too late,” Ty corrected “Maybe I need to et your surveyors off my land There will be no road There will be no strip mine There will be no coal plant”

“And I’reement,” Dyson tersely reminded him

“Then you’d better sue me for breach of contract!” Ty snapped

“You’re forgetting sohts to that land I don’t need you for a partner I ht it was the honorable thing to do so we could all share in the wealth But if you’re going to welsh on the deal, you don’t deserve any of the money There’s a fortune out there, and if you’re too du tone, advising Ty that he was going ahead with the plans with or without hiht you had so to take that coal out of that ground And the way it stands now, you aren’t going to get a dime”

“Now it’s you who’s forgetting soround you’re talking about is landlocked And you’ll play hell crossing Calder property to get to it”

“I’ve done ht with you—for Tara Lee’s sake—but you’ve backed me into a corner,” Dyson warned “Whatever happens, it’s your doing—you started it” Stiff with anger, he turned to his daughter, a turbulent figure of contained fury at his side “I’m sorry, Tara Leee but you see how it is” He threw another dark look at Ty, then swung to his partner “Coet out of here”

As the twowith her te the vibrancy of her dark beauty Slowly she crossed the rooainst her pride to plead with him

“How can you do this?” Then suddenly, unexpectedly, she was pressing her body against hi into his shirt with a kind of desperation “Don’t do it, Ty Please”