“Please may I look through the agreement?” he begged.
Jacob passed it over to him. He read it through slowly and carefully.
“Anything troubling you?” Jacob asked.
“I don’t know what it is,” Dauncey confessed. “The agreement seems all right, but I saw their faces when I let ’em out. I can’t see the flaw, Jacob, but it’s not an honest deal. They’ve got something up their sleeve.”
Jacob smiled.
“Perhaps you’re right, Dick,” he answered. “Anyway, lock the agreement up in the safe and don’t worry.”