For weeks they toiled with blistered palms and aching backs.
"Certainly," replied Gully, "I want you to draw up the contract, and be present at the signing."
"Then you have drawn no agreement yet," asked Norton.
"No," replied Gully.
"Well, we will go to the house and see what can be done. We will at least have something ready in the way of a proposition to offer; and say, Mr. Gully, have you given them an idea of the charge per acre you are to make for this work."
"No, I had not fully determined what it would be worth, and depended on your assistance in making an estimate," replied Gully.