But it's the girl I want."
He stood up and in his anxiety the effect of the liquor faded
out.
"I've waited on your promise, Zindorf. You said that some day,
when Ordez was hard-pressed he would sell her for money, even if
she was his natural daughter. You were right; you knew Ordez.
You have got an assignment of all the slaves in possession, in
the partnership, and Ordez has cleared out of the country. I
know what you paid for his half-interest in this business, it's
set out in the assignment. It was three thousand dollars.
"Think of it, man, three thousand dollars to Ordez for a
wholesale, omnibus assignment of everything. An elastic legal
note of an assignment that you can stretch to include this girl
along with the half-dozen other slaves that you have on hand
here; and I offer you ten thousand dollars for the girl alone!"
One could see how the repetition of the sum in gold affected
Zindorf.
He had the love of money in that dominating control that the
Apostle spoke of. But the elegant young man was moved by a lure
no less potent. And his anxiety, for the time, suppressed the
evidences of liquor.
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