human
It is your own opinion that I want, Victor, the fair-faced man was saying,
gpt
You've had it out with Cortwright? Brouillard asked. And then:
human
Where is he now? in Chicago?
gpt
No. He is on his way to the Niquoia, coming over in his car from El Gato. Says he made it that way once before and is willing to bet that it is easier than climbing War Arrow. But never mind J. Wesley. You are the man I came to see.
human
I can give you the facts, was the quiet rejoinder.
gpt
While the Cortwright boom lasts there will be plenty of incoming business--and some outgoing. When the bubble bursts--as it will have to when the dam is completed, if it doesn't before--you'll quit until the Buckskin fills up with settlers who can give you crops to move. That is the situation in a nutshell, all but one little item. There is a mine up on Chigringo--Massingale's--with a good few thousand tons of pay ore on the dump. Where there is one mine there may be more, later on; and I don't suppose that even such crazy boomers as the Cortwright crowd will care to put in a gold reduction plant. So you would have the ore to haul to the Red Butte smelters.
human
You are dodging the issue, Victor, and you know it, he objected.
gpt
What I want is your personal notion. If you were the executive committee of the Pacific Southwestern, would you, or would you not, build the Extension? That's the point I'm trying to make.
human
Besides, the railroad _is_ coming; it's _got_ to come.
gpt
If you put it that way, he said to the man who was waiting,
human
Poodles.