Georgianna sighted me fust.
"Good mornin', Cap'n Snow," says she. "Mr. Jacobs and I have made each other's acquaintance, you see."
"Yes," says I, doubtful. "I see you have. I cal'late you think it's kind of unreasonable, our not—"
Jim Henry cut in ahead of me quick as a flash.
"Miss Lentz and I have been goin' over the matter of screens for Parkinson's hotel," he says. "I tell her that her proposition suits us down to the ground."
Over I went on my beam-ends again. All I could think of to say was: "Hey?"—and I said that pretty feeble.
"It is very nice of you to do this," says Georgianna. "It makes it so much easier for me. Of course, when I decided to make business my life-work, I realized that I might be called upon to do disagreeable things like—like wire-pullin', and so on, which some business people do; but honorable rivalry is so much better, isn't it?"
"Sure!" says Jacobs, prompt. "Yes, indeed."
"So it is all settled," she went on. "Our bids are to go in on the same day; and meantime neither of us is to call on Mr. Parkinson or to meet him—in a business way, I mean."
I nodded, bein' still too upset to talk; but Jim Henry spoke quick and prompt.