"Yes."
"Is it the only mortgage you have, if I may ask?"
"It is."
"And what do you consider the farm worth?"
"Well, I was offered eight thousand dollars for it last year, and I refused to sell."
"Then I think it will be an easy matter to arrange to have the mortgage taken up by somebody else. Possibly my father or my uncle will do it."
"Will they?" demanded Mr. Sanderson, eagerly. "Well, of course, that would be some help, but, at the same time, it wouldn't bring my four thousand dollars back," he added glumly.
After that Minnie demanded to know more concerning Songbird's condition, and the two youths gave her every possible detail.
"If I had a telephone here I might send word to Ashton to find out if they had tracked that rascal yet," said Mr. Sanderson. "But they asked so much money to put a telephone in over here I didn't have 'em do it."
"Where is the nearest telephone?" questioned Spud.