The rivermanIllusby and Clarence FUnderwood . oblivious to the keen wind of latterNovember which swept up over the scum ice from the length he hopped down and made his way to the officeof the Welton Lumber Co. * Look here, Welton, he demanded abruptly when hehad reached that operators private office, how much ofa cut are you going to make this year ? About twenty million, replied Welton. Why? Just figuring on the drive, said Orde, nodding a fare-well. He had the team harnessed, and, assuming his bufTalo-furcoat, drove to the offices of all the men owning timber upand down the
The rivermanIllusby and Clarence FUnderwood . oblivious to the keen wind of latterNovember which swept up over the scum ice from the length he hopped down and made his way to the officeof the Welton Lumber Co. * Look here, Welton, he demanded abruptly when hehad reached that operators private office, how much ofa cut are you going to make this year ? About twenty million, replied Welton. Why? Just figuring on the drive, said Orde, nodding a fare-well. He had the team harnessed, and, assuming his bufTalo-furcoat, drove to the offices of all the men owning timber upand down the river. When he had collected his statistics,he returned to his desk, where he filled the backs of severalenvelopes with his characteristically minute figures. At theclose of his calculations he nodded his head vigorouslyseveral times. Joe, he called across to his partner, Im going to cutthat whole forty million we have left. Newmark did not turn. After a moment his dry expres-sionless voice came back. I thought that we figured that as a t I I I THE RIVERMAN 299 We did, but Fm going to clean up the whole thing thisyear. Do you think you can do it? Sure thing, replied Orde. Then under his breath, andquite to himself, he added: Ive got to! XXXVII THE duel had now come to grapples. Orde was fight-ing for his very life. The notes given by New-mark & Orde would come due by the beginningof the following summer. Before that time Orde must beable to meet them personally, or, as by the agreement withNewmark, his stock in the Boom Company would be turnedin to the firm. This would, of course, spell nearly a totalloss of it, as far as Orde was concerned. The chief anxiety under which the riverman laboured,however, was the imminent prospect of losing under themortgage all the Northern Peninsula timber. He had thoughtthat the firm would be able to step in for its redemption,even if he personally found himself unable to meet the ob-ligation. Three hundred million feet would seem
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