It's a thing that's done every day. I was loaded up
with a partner that didn't know anything, and couldn't
do anything, and I unloaded; that's all."

"You unloaded just at the time when you knew that your paint
was going to be worth about twice what it ever had been;
and you wanted all the advantage for yourself."

"I had a right to it. I made the success."

"Yes, you made it with Rogers's money; and when you'd
made it you took his share of it. I guess you thought
of that when you saw him, and that's why you couldn't
look him in the face."

At these words Lapham lost his temper.

"I guess you don't want to ride with me any more to-day,"
he said, turning the mare abruptly round.

"I'm as ready to go back as what you are," replied his wife.
"And don't you ask me to go to that house with you any more.
You can sell it, for all me. I sha'n't live in it.
There's blood on it."



IV.