"I will think over it, Mr. Pendoggat. I will think and pray."
"Make up your mind now, or I get another partner."
Pendoggat lifted the glass of the lantern and blew out the light.
"Have we the right to work a mine upon the moor?"
"Leave all that to me. You get the money. Tell 'em we will guarantee ten per cent. Likely it will be more. It's as safe a thing as was ever known, and it is the chance of your lifetime. Here's my hand."
Eli took the hand, and had the gorse-prickles forced well into his.
"I'll do my best, Mr. Pendoggat. I know you are an honest and a generous man," he said.