and the ol’ lady needs an operation. Say—what’s it to you? You got nothing to do with us.”
Candy said, “I ain’t much good with on’y one hand. I lost my hand right here on this ranch. That’s why they give me a job swampin’.”
“An’ they give me two hundred an’ fifty dollars ’cause I los’ my hand, an’ I got fifty more saved up right in the bank, right now.”
“Tha’s three hunderd, and I got fifty more comin’ the end a the month. Tell you what—” He leaned forward eagerly.
“S’pose I went in with you guys. Tha’s three hunderd an’ fifty bucks I’d put in. I ain’t much good,”
“but I could cook and tend the chickens and hoe the garden some. How’d that be?”
George half-closed his eyes. “I gotta think about that. We was always gonna do it by ourselves.”
Candy interrupted him, “I’d make a will an’ leave my share to you guys in case I kick off, ’cause I ain’t got no relatives nor nothing.”
“You guys got any money? Maybe we could do her right now?”
George spat on the floor disgustedly. “We got ten bucks between us.”
Then he said thoughtfully, “Look, if me an’ Lennie work a month an’ don’t spen’ nothing, we’ll have a hunderd bucks.”
“That’d be four fifty. I bet we could swing her for that.”
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