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“
I
see
you
are
trying
to
make
me
angry
,
Harran
,
”
returned
S
.
Behrman
,
“
but
you
won
’
t
succeed
.
Better
give
up
trying
,
my
boy
.
As
I
said
,
the
best
way
is
to
have
the
railroad
and
the
farmer
get
along
amicably
.
It
is
the
only
way
we
can
do
business
.
Well
,
s
’
long
,
Governor
,
I
must
trot
along
.
S
’
long
,
Harran
.
”
He
took
himself
off
.
But
before
leaving
Guadalajara
Magnus
dropped
into
the
town
’
s
small
grocery
store
to
purchase
a
box
of
cigars
of
a
certain
Mexican
brand
,
unprocurable
elsewhere
.
Harran
remained
in
the
buggy
.
While
he
waited
,
Dyke
appeared
at
the
end
of
the
street
,
and
,
seeing
Derrick
’
s
younger
son
,
came
over
to
shake
hands
with
him
.
He
explained
his
affair
with
the
P
.
and
S
.
W
.
,
and
asked
the
young
man
what
he
thought
of
the
expected
rise
in
the
price
of
hops
.
“
Hops
ought
to
be
a
good
thing
,
”
Harran
told
him
.
“
The
crop
in
Germany
and
in
New
York
has
been
a
dead
failure
for
the
last
three
years
,
and
so
many
people
have
gone
out
of
the
business
that
there
’
s
likely
to
be
a
shortage
and
a
stiff
advance
in
the
price
.
They
ought
to
go
to
a
dollar
next
year
.
Sure
,
hops
ought
to
be
a
good
thing
.
How
’
s
the
old
lady
and
Sidney
,
Dyke
?
”
“
Why
,
fairly
well
,
thank
you
,
Harran
.
They
’
re
up
to
Sacramento
just
now
to
see
my
brother
.
I
was
thinking
of
going
in
with
my
brother
into
this
hop
business
.
But
I
had
a
letter
from
him
this
morning
.
He
may
not
be
able
to
meet
me
on
this
proposition
.
He
’
s
got
other
business
on
hand
.
If
he
pulls
out
—
and
he
probably
will
—
I
’
ll
have
to
go
it
alone
,
but
I
’
ll
have
to
borrow
.
I
had
thought
with
his
money
and
mine
we
would
have
enough
to
pull
off
the
affair
without
mortgaging
anything
.
As
it
is
,
I
guess
I
’
ll
have
to
see
S
.
Behrman
.
”
“
I
’
ll
be
cursed
if
I
would
!
”
exclaimed
Harran
.
“
Well
,
S
.
Behrman
is
a
screw
,
”
admitted
the
engineer
,
“
and
he
is
’
railroad
’
to
his
boots
;
but
business
is
business
,
and
he
would
have
to
stand
by
a
contract
in
black
and
white
,
and
this
chance
in
hops
is
too
good
to
let
slide
.
I
guess
we
’
ll
try
it
on
,
Harran
.
I
can
get
a
good
foreman
that
knows
all
about
hops
just
now
,
and
if
the
deal
pays
—
well
,
I
want
to
send
Sid
to
a
seminary
up
in
San
Francisco
.
”
“
Well
,
mortgage
the
crops
,
but
don
’
t
mortgage
the
homestead
,
Dyke
,
”
said
Harran
.
“
And
,
by
the
way
,
have
you
looked
up
the
freight
rates
on
hops
?
”
“
No
,
I
haven
’
t
yet
,
”
answered
Dyke
,
“
and
I
had
better
be
sure
of
that
,
hadn
’
t
I
?
I
hear
that
the
rate
is
reasonable
,
though
.
”
