"That's to be proven. At any rate, why don't you reduce the price of yours?"
Carlton smiled and shook his head.
"That's impossible."
"Why?"
"Because it would be a confession that it had been made too high in the beginning. Besides the property owners have fixed the price at the assessed value of the land. Many of them could get more for their property. But they've been public spirited enough to shade down to the lowest point for the sake of having the station located at Cleverly."
"Then your people won't offer any other inducements?"
"I'm pretty sure they will not. We want the station very much, indeed, but we want it on its merits."
That night at the boarding house Joe Hart invited Barry to go out with him.
"Where?" asked the boy.