"Perhaps he isn't so bad as he used to be. Anyway, you could give him a trial. You wouldn't have to stay with him if you didn't want to."
"And there's another thing. You——"
"Oh, don't mind me!"
"I shan't go without you, Dale."
"Then, I'll go along. He says he wants more hands."
Owen's face brightened.
"If you'll do that I'll take him up, and write a letter to him to-morrow. I'll tell him to keep places open for both of us, and that we want to work together."
"It may not suit him to keep us together."
"He'll have to do it—if he wants us at all. This is a combination that can't be broken, remember."
"All right, then, have your own way. But if we're to be there by the first of next month, we can't stop for canal boats and slow lake lumber boats."