human
I know very little about the man, but I never saw more thorough work than he has put in on the flume, he said.
gpt
That's 'most enough guarantee for him, but there are one or two points about him I can't quite worry out the meaning of. For one thing, the timber-righters haven't stopped him chopping.
human
It is a little difficult to understand what use timber-rights would be to anybody here, she said.
gpt
They could hardly get their lumber out, and there are very few people to sell it to if they put up a mill.
human
I expect they mean to sell it me,
gpt
But you always cut what you wanted without asking anybody.
human
I did. Still, it seems scarcely likely that I'm going to do it again. If anyone has located timber-rights--which he'd get for 'most nothing on a patent from the Crown--he has never worried about them until the Canopus began to pay. Of course, one has to put in timber as he takes out the ore, and it seems to have struck somebody that the men who started it on the Canopus had burnt off all the young firs they ought to have kept. That's why he bought those timber-rights up.
gpt
Still there are thousands of them nobody can ever use, and you must have timber,
human
Precisely! said Devine.
gpt
That man figures that when I get it he's going to screw a big share of the profits in this mine out of me.
human
But that is infamous extortion!
gpt
Well, he said,