If he failed he would lose nothing, because of
having the contracts with the settlers, and if he won the contracts
would be valid.
Sanderson was determined to win. When after an absence of a week
Williams returned, to announce that he had made arrangements for the
material necessary to make a "regular" start, and that he had hired men
and teams to transport the material, Sanderson's determination became
grim. For Williams told him that he had "gone the limit," which meant
that every cent to Sanderson's credit in the Lazette bank had been
pledged to pay for the material the engineer had ordered.
"We're going to rush things from now on," Williams told Sanderson.
"Next week we'll need ten thousand dollars, at least."
Sanderson went into the house and had a long talk with Mary Bransford.
Coming out, he went to the corral, saddled Streak, and rode to Okar.
Shortly he was sitting at a desk opposite a little man who was the
resident buyer for an eastern live-stock company.
"The Double A has three thousand head of cattle," Sanderson told the
little man.
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