Yeah, I'd be out the interest I might could've made on that money and the ten K, too, but I got the feeling your people had already spent most of it and were going to be strapped to come up with it in July.

Source: Maron, Margaret. 2003. 'Last Lessons of Summer' New York: Warner. (author is from NC) Full Context: and it wouldn't be fun, but that's the price of doing business. Your kinfolks though? They might've had a problem. " " I don't understand. " " See, in addition to the non-refundable signing bonus, I advanced them fifty thousand dollars, twenty-five on each parcel. They were so sure Miss Martha could talk Miss Frances into selling. But it didn't look like it was going to happen, so they were going to have to pay me back that fifty K. Yeah, I'd be out the interest I might could've made on that money and the ten K, too, but I got the feeling your people had already spent most of it and were going to be strapped to come up with it in July. " " I see. " Now that she understood Curt's words, she realized what a motive for murder it meant. From the things they'd said last night, her cousins might well have had a difficult time paying back the option money. Grandmother had stood between them and a