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Updated: June 16, 2025
But he refrained, though his eyes lit responsively as he watched the smile of irony that gleamed in the mill-owner's eyes. "Well, well." Standing's tone lost none of the aggravation of his smile. "Say, I'd never have recognised you, Idepski, if it hadn't been that I was warned you'd shipped on the Lizzie." He laughed outright. "I can't help it.
It was one of the oldest regions of the earth's land, driven and beaten and desolated under a climate beyond words in its merciless severity. But now the place was peopled. Now human dwellings dotted the forest foreshore of the cove. And the latter were the homes of the workers who had come at the mill-owner's call to share in his great adventure. Then there was shipping in the cove.
He had applied to the purchase of the field the sum saved to cancel the mortgage upon his house at the rear end of the town. The three days before the foreclosure of the mortgage were days of exquisite anguish to Pop. When the foreclosure came and he and his goods were turned out on the banks of the creek to make room for the mill-owner's improvements, his mental turmoil ended.
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