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might be able to finish it up in one or two days. It just depends on how motivated I can keep my men."
    Shaw did a little fist pump in the air thinking how it was probably a good thing he could wrap up the job duties today. He knew Jude well, and knew he wouldn't leave any work behind until he had finished. It wasn't in his personality which was probably why he liked him as a worker; hard workers were hard to find whereas lazy ones were a dime a dozen.
    “Well that's great news. I got to tell you because I don't know if your sister-in-law told you but you're looking at right around a five hundred dollar bonus if you can do the job in a week son.”
    “I got plenty of work up this way and I don't have to drive four hours to get there. What are you offering?”
    "But I just told you, son I have a five hundred dollar bonus if you get done in time, you tell me when the last time you got a five hundred dollar bonus was? You don't need the money then you just say the word."
    “Everyone needs money Shaw, even bigwigs like you. I’m not trying to say I don’t care about a bonus because I do, but I get a day's pay as well, despite that five hundred dollar bonus you are dangling in front of me. There is a good damn chance that we will just about all but have it spent by the time we get there and back. I don't have the kind of money to go down there on my own dime while I'm waiting for you to reimburse me.”
    Shaw said, “Well you didn’t really expect me to send you down there all by yourself did you? I mean without anything did you?”
    “Yup, I sure did.”
    "You know what son, I'll make sure you aren't sent down there with empty pockets. I got you a company van and I’ll even fill up the first tank for you. You can top off all your chainsaw gas tanks and your carry tanks. I'll even have Sarah call and get the finest hotel we can manage for you in town. It's a small town so I can't promise the Hilton, but it'll do. Two men to a room, Maria already said this for you while you're working so that's about the best I can do."
    "You still haven't said shit about what I'm going to make Shaw. If you think putting me up in a hotel room so I can break my back and my knees for a week is worth it then you're crazy. I need to have something that I need to fold when I put myself back in the car to drive home."
    Shaw said, “I remember you being a lot more patient back in the day.”
    Jude snapped right back, "But back in the day I had a wife and a newborn son. Now all I have is a four-year-old and a stack of bills and not enough hours in my damn day. Ever since my wife got cancer things have been tough."
    Shaw said trying to relate to him, “Well I can understand not having enough hours in the day son, but take it from me, even if you're up to date on your bills you still ain't never going to have enough time to do what you want .”
    “All I want to do is pay my bills and feed my son. I don't have high expectations in life but giving my boy the life he deserves. Get to it. How much you paying otherwise.”
    Shaw bit on his knuckles he said, “How about a thousand bucks?”
    “Each?”
    “Hell no, not each, are you crazy? What man makes a thousand bucks a week in 1983? Christ did one of them there logs fall and hit you in the head? That grand is for the lot of you.”
    Jude laughed out loud at this, "Are you kidding me? Hell, that wouldn't be more than two fifty a man. You know what that is?"
    Shaw was trying to use some muscle he said, “Yeah that's what the offer is son. You think you can do better elsewhere?”
    “Would I be asking you if you're crazy if not?”
    "Well, what dollar amount do you think is good enough for you and your boys to go down and do the work?"
    "Well, I think we might just be too damn far apart to even say it, Shaw?"
    “But since I'm the one hiring you, why don't you go ahead and let me worry about being too much money or not too much money.”
    Already smiling and knowing the answer, he figured he may