"Because I have a good ranching proposition here. And you wouldn't pay what the land will be worth some day if I hang on."
"What will it be worth?"
"About a hundred dollars an acre."
"You're right, I wouldn't pay it," Mr. Braden concurred. "Ridiculous. I would give you say twenty dollars, all around, and that's more than it's worth."
"Just as it stands—stock, implements and all?"
Mr. Braden looked at Angus, but failed to read his face.
"That's what I had in mind. But if you were making a start elsewhere and needed some of the implements and stock—why I wouldn't insist. Say for the land alone."
Angus laughed.
"All right, laugh!" said Mr. Braden frowning. "Go and get a new loan, then. And don't lose any time about it, either."
"You seem to be in a hurry."