human
Do you know what I'm thinking about, Mr. Brouillard? I'm saying it over soft and slow to myself that no young man in this world ever had such a magnificent fighting chance as you have right here, he averred, the sandy-gray eyes growing suddenly alert and shrewd.
gpt
If you don't come out of this with money enough to buy in all those bonds your father was placing that time in Chicago--but of course you will.
human
I'm afraid I don't quite understand what you mean, Mr. Cortwright,
gpt
Hear him, Gene, he chuckled, sharing the joke with his daughter;
human
Then to Brouillard:
gpt
Say, young man; you don't mean to tell me that your father's son needs a guardian, do you? You know exactly where these canals are going to run and all the choice spots they are going to irrigate; what's to prevent your getting in ahead of the rush and taking up a dozen or so of those prime quarter-sections--homesteads, town sites, and the like? Lack of money? Why, bless your soul, there are plenty of us who would fall all over ourselves running to back a proposition like that--any God's quantity of us who would fairly throw the working capital at you! For that matter, I don't know but I'd undertake to finance you alone.