The stiffness went out of her slender neck and Shoulders. She smiled. "Tomorrow is Saturday " he said. "Will there be three operators on duty during the daylight shift?" "No. On weekends there're never more than two. " "Joan I see.

Altogether for eleven days. In order to test my belief in the potency of phosphate of lime I procured some from Prof. Frankland absolutely free of animal matter and of any acid. A small. buy nexium "It's a deal then?" "Far's I'm concerned " said Scattergood slipping his foot inside his shoe "it is. " That afternoon the papers having been signed and the deal consummated Scattergood sat cogitating. "I've been done " he said to himself solemnly "accordin' to them fellers' notion. They come and seen me and done me. They planned out how they'd do it and I didn't never suspect a thing. Uh-huh! Seems like I was unfortunate just gettin' a start in life like I be. . . . Bonds says they. Uh-huh! They'll place 'em and place 'em handy. First int'rest day there won't be no int'rest and them bonds'll be foreclosed--and where'll I be? Mighty ingenious fellers Crane and Keith. . . . And I up and walked right into it like a fly into a molasses barrel. Them fellers " he said even more somberly "come here calc'latin' to cheat me out of my river. . . . Me bein' jest a fat man without no brains. . . . " Crane and Keith had left Scattergood the executive head of the new dam and boom company and had confided to him the task of building the dam and improving the river. He approached it sadly. "Might as well save what I kin out of the wreck " he said to himself and quietly manufactured a dummy contracting company to whom he let the entire job for a lump sum of thirty-eight thousand seven hundred dollars. The dummy contractor was Scattergood Baines. The dam was completed booms and cribbing placed ledges blasted out well within the six months' period set for those operations. Every thirty days Scattergood in the name of the dummy contractor was paid eighty per cent of his estimates and at the completion of the work he received the remainder of the whole sum. "I wouldn't 'a' done it to them boys " he said as he surveyed a deposit of upward of seven thousand dollars his profit on the transaction "if it hadn't 'a' been they organized to cheat me out of my river. I calc'late in the circumstances though I'm most entitled to what I kin salvage out of the wreck. " Now the Coldriver Dam and Boom Company Scattergood Baines president and manager was ready for business which was to take the logs of Messrs. Crane and Keith and drive them down the river at the rate of sixty cents per thousand feet. It was ready and eager and so expressed itself in quaintly worded communications from Baines to those gentlemen. But no logs appeared to be driven. "Jest like I said ".