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Even the up-to-date white farmer is content with one crop at a time and rotation of crops. Mr. John Chinaman goes him one better, and grows two crops at one time on the same soil. I've seen it radishes and carrots, two crops, sown at one time." "Which don't stand to reason," Billy objected. "They'd be only a half crop of each." "Another guess coming," Gunston jeered.
"Eight thousan', four hundred dollars just for rent the first year. I know five hundred acres I can buy for three dollars an acre." "Will it grow potatoes?" Gunston asked. Billy shook his head. "Nor nothin' else, I guess." All three laughed heartily and the commission merchant resumed: "That seven dollars was only for the land. Possibly you know what it costs to plow twelve hundred acres?"
Billy nodded solemnly. "And he got a hundred and sixty sacks to the acre that year," Gunston continued. "Potatoes were selling at fifty cents. My father was at the head of our concern at the time, so I know for a fact. And Sing Kee could have sold at fifty cents and made money. But did he? Trust a Chinaman to know the market. They can skin the commission merchants at it. Sing Kee held on.
I have not counted; I am such a bad man of business; but I am sure it is more than L1,400. Losely made some jocular observation to the effect that if Gunston never kept an account of what be had, he could never tell whether he was robbed, and, therefore, never would be robbed; since, according to Othello,
Well, not very long before that date-perhaps a year or two-less than two years, I am sure-this eccentric rascal sent Mr. Gunston, the man who had transported him, L100! Gunston, you must know, feeling more than ever bored and hipped when he lost Willy, tried to divert himself by becoming director in some railway company.
The company proved a bubble; all turned their indignation on the one rich man who could pay where others cheated. Gunston was ruined purse and character fled to Calais; and there, less than seven years ago, when in great distress, he received from poor Willy a kind, affectionate, forgiving letter, and L100. I have this from Gunston's nearest relation, to whom he told it, crying like a child.
It took but a little while to learn that Gunston was a commission merchant, and to realize that the content of his talk was too valuable for Saxon to lose. Promptly, when he saw that the other's cigar was finished, Billy invited him into the next car to meet Saxon. Billy would have been incapable of such an act prior to his sojourn in Carmel. That much at least he had acquired of social facility.
The neighboring estate of Gunston Hall, belonging to George Mason, was likewise divided into several units for the sake of more detailed supervision. Even the 103 slaves of James Mercer, another neighbor, were distributed on four plantations under the management in 1771 of Thomas Oliver.
"He's just teen tellin' me about the potato kings, and I wanted him to tell you," Billy explained to Saxon after the introduction. "Go on and tell her, Mr. Gunston, about that fan tan sucker that made nineteen thousan' last year in celery an' asparagus." "I was just telling your husband about the way the Chinese make things go up the San Joaquin river.
Therefore, in short, Gunston looked on his dishonest steward not as a man tempted by a sudden impulse in some moment of distress, at which a previous life was belied, but as a confirmed, dissimulating sharper, to whom public justice allowed no mercy. And thus, Lionel, William Losely was prosecuted, tried, and sentenced to seven years' transportation.
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