"
"I thought so!" cried Newmark, with as near an approach to
exultation as he ever permitted himself. "Now, just one other
thing: aren't Heinzman's rollways below most of the others?"
"Yes, I believe they are," said Orde.
"And, of course, it was agreed, as usual, that Heinzman was to break
out his own rollways?"
"I see," said Orde slowly. "You think he intends to delay things
enough so we can't deliver on the date agreed on."
"I know it," stated Newmark positively.
"But if he refuses to deliver the logs, no court of law will--"
"Law!" cried Newmark. "Refuse to deliver! You don't know that
kind. He won't refuse to deliver. There'll just be a lot of
inevitable delays, and his foreman will misunderstand, and all that.
You ought to know more about that than I do."
Orde nodded, his eye abstracted.
"It's a child-like scheme," commented Newmark. "If I'd had more
knowledge of the business, I'd have seen it sooner."
"I'd never have seen it at all," said Orde humbly. "You seem to be
the valuable member of this firm, Joe."
"In my way," said Newmark, "you in yours. We ought to make a good
team."
XII
Sunday afternoon, Orde, leaving Newmark to devices of his own,
walked slowly up the main street, turned to the right down one of
the shaded side residence streets that ended finally in a beautiful
glistening sand-hill.
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