human
Now I think you've got it all,
gpt
Yes, said Brooke, whose face had grown a trifle grim,
human
I fancy I have. I am to find out, if I can, how far the third drift runs west, and when the driving of it began. Then one of us will stake off a claim on Devine's holding and endeavor, with the support of the other, to hold his own in as tough a struggle as was probably ever undertaken by two men in our position. You see I have met Devine.
gpt
I guess he's not going to give us very much trouble. He'll buy us off instead, once we make it plain that we have got the whip hand of him. Your share's six thousand dollars, and if you lay them out as I tell you, you'll go back to England a prosperous man.
human
I hope so, he said.
gpt
Still, I shall have left more than I could buy with a great many dollars behind me in Canada.
human
Dollars will buy you anything, said Saxton.
gpt
That is, when you have enough of them. They're going to buy me a seat in the Provincial Legislature by and by. Then I'll let the business slide, and start in doing something for the other folks. We've got 'most everything but men here, and I'll bring out your starving deadbeats from England and make them happy--like Strathcona.