"Owe!" said Finnegan with a scream.
"Just let him come," said Dink, doubling up his fists. "Let him come and assess us!"
The three sat in long silence. Finally the Tennessee Shad spoke:
"I am afraid Doc was sore because we tried to freeze him out at first. It was a mistake."
No one noticed this.
"Great Willie Keeler!" said Dennis suddenly. "If this thing had been a success we'd have been ruined!"
"But what right," said Dink, unwilling to give up the fight, "had he to pay the Eureka such prices. Who authorized him?"
"A vote of fifty-one per cent. of the stock," said the Tennessee Shad.
"But he never said anything to us—the forty-nine per cent. Has the minority no rights?"
"The minority," said the Tennessee Shad, speaking beyond his horizon, "the minority has only one inalienable right, the right to indorse."