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"Me neither!" agreed the mountaineer fervently.
"But I've known of a dozen cases just like yours that went against the
claimant. There was the Brown case in Idaho, for instance, that was
exactly like yours. Brown had some money, and he fought it through up to
the Supreme Court, but they decided against him."
"How was that?" asked Samuels.
Bob explained at length, dispassionately, avoiding even the colour of
argument, but drawing strongly the parallel.
"Even if you could afford it, I'm almighty afraid you'd run up against
exactly the same thing," Bob concluded, "and they'd certainly use the
Brown case as a precedent."
"Well, I've got money!" said Samuels. "Don't you forget it. I don't have
to live in a place like this. I've got a good, sawn-lumber house,
painted, in Durham and a garden of posies."
"I'd like to see it," said Bob.
"Sometime you get to Durham, ask for me," invited Samuels.
"Well, I see how you feel. If I were in your fix, I'd probably fight it
too, but I'm morally certain they'd get you in the courts. And it is a
tremendous expense for nothing."
"Well, they've got to git me off'n here first," threatened Samuels.
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