“I vill get an extension of time,” said he feebly.
“Will you?” countered Newmark.
The two men looked each other in the eye for a moment.
“Vell, maybe,” laughed Heinzman uneasily. “It looks to me like a winner.”
“All right, then,” said Newmark briskly. “I'll make out a mortgage at ten per cent for you, and you'll lend the money on it. At the proper time, if things happen that way, you will foreclose. That's all you have to do with it. Then, when the timber land comes to you under the foreclose, you will reconvey an undivided nine-tenths' interest—for proper consideration, of course, and without recording the deed.”
Heinzman laughed with assumed lightness.
“Suppose I fool you,” said he. “I guess I joost keep it for mineself.”
Newmark looked at him coldly.
“I wouldn't,” he advised. “You may remember the member from Lapeer County in that charter fight? And the five hundred dollars for his vote? Try it on, and see how much evidence I can bring up. It's called bribery in this State, and means penitentiary usually.”
“You don't take a joke,” complained Heinzman.