Oh, I'm in earnest all right. I mean it! Look here! Can't you see how
that woman can be a perfect gold mine to me? You know enough about my
work to understand that I'm really out here after Indians myself, and
she - well, I'll wager a cool thousand there isn't a spot on this whole
island that ever dreamed of seeing an Indian that she doesn't know all
about!"
The clerk nodded. "But - "
"But nothing!" Impatiently Blair brushed aside all objections. "Why, I
hadn't the remotest idea how I was going to get started. It's a rattling
piece of good luck, and we'll fix it up right now!"
"Yes, but - " Still the other man hesitated. "It sounds all right
enough, - from your end of it especially, but you'd better see her
first. She's a proud little piece, - doesn't like obligations of any
kind, - and a stranger, - a man - I'm sorry to discourage you, but I
don't believe she'll have a thing to do with it."
In Blair's eyes impatience threatened to become something more emphatic.
"It's a business proposition pure and simple," he argued. "She gives me
all the information she's been able to get together, and I pay her
expenses while she does it. That gives her a chance to finish her own
work, don't you see? A mighty good proposition for her, too, I should
say, and if she doesn't see it that way herself, - why, - well, she
isn't as intelligent as she looks, that's all!"
"Providing you can persuade her it is just business.
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