"Besides, the first profits from the mill, as you very well
know, if you would ever stop to think, must go to pay for logs to
work on, and there must always be a good balance for that purpose.
No. I reserve enough from my money to fix the home I want; but I
shall wait to do it until the mill is working, so I can give all
my attention to it, while you are out looking up timber."
"Of course I can do all of it perfectly well," he said. "And it's
a MAN'S business. You'll make me look like fifty cents if you get
out among men and go to doing a thing no woman in this part of the
country ever did. Why, it will look like you didn't TRUST me!"
"I can't help how it will look," said Kate. "This is my last and
only dollar; if I lose it, I am out for life; I shall take no
risk. I've no confidence in your business ability, and you know
it. It need not hurt your pride a particle to say that we are
partners; that I'm going to build the mill, while you're going to
bring in the timber. It's the only way I shall touch the
proposition. I will give you two hundred dollars for the deed and
abstract of the ravine.
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