"I'm his partner."
"Show a profit last year?"
"No. But we only had one camp then, and this year we have two and each one has cut more than the one we had last year."
"Who did you sell to, last year?"
"Baker & Crosby."
"Satisfied with their boom scale?"
"Well, no, we weren't. That's why we thought we'd offer the cut to you this year, if you want it."
"Want it! Of course we want it—that is, if the price is right."
"What will you pay?"
Herr Heinrich Metzger removed his glasses and dangled them by their wide black ribbon, as he glanced along his thin nose. "Sure you can deliver eight million feet?" he asked.