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Guess you've come right through. Well, that being so, you'll understand the Shagaunty cut's been far above average. Now we're down to average. That's all. That's how the Skandinavia's been spoilt." He thrust his cap back from his forehead. It was a movement of irritation. Then he produced a plug of tobacco from his hip-pocket, and bit off a chew.
Here, I want you to hear things the way they seem to me. You think the Skandinavia's no sickly kid. Well, I tell you it is. Anyway, in this thing. Peterman wants to buy me. Why? Don't you know? I think you do. The Skandinavia's got a mighty bad scare right now. The Shagaunty's played out. And I'm jumping the market. For the practical purposes of the moment the Skandinavia's mighty sick.
Wouldn't she hear the sort of things a woman of that sort ought to? Wouldn't she get hell raised with her?" "But the Skandinavia's no sickly kid." The girl's eyes were challenging. There was warmth, too, in her retort. His words had stirred her as he intended them to stir her. "You think that?" he said. "You think that they have the right to demand my child? You approve?
As they made their way up the woodland trail they talked together with an easy intimacy. Nancy was young. She was full of the joy of life, full of real enthusiasm. And this rough creature with his ready smile appealed to her. His frank, open way was something so far removed from that which prevailed under the Skandinavia's rule.
All I learned at that time told me there was only one country in the world that was due to hold the world's paper industry, and that country was yours Canada. The illimitable forests of the country are one of the most amazing features of it. The water power yes, and even the climate. But I saw all Skandinavia's advantage. Hitherto they've had a complete monopoly.
And the human army it employed had returned to their peace-time labours in the full determination to undo the grievous hurt which the mischief of the Skandinavia's agents and their own folly had inflicted. In the relief of reaction, they, no less than their employers, had redoubled their efforts.
Then the girl's pity for the man who was to feel the weight of the Skandinavia's wrathful might. She had said he was reasonable. She had hinted that he, Peterman, had blundered. There was only one reasonable interpretation to the position. And it did not leave him guessing for one single moment. Once he passed a fleshy hand up over his forehead and brushed back his dark hair.
And Bat recognised the battle note in the tone. "How?" Bull flung the message across the desk. "The Skandinavia's representative is arriving on the Myra," he said. Then he added, "Elas Peterman says so." "What for?" Bat had picked up the message and stood reading it. The other searched amongst his papers. "I kind of forgot putting you wise before," he said.
It's mostly new hands passin' their stuff on. Skert reckons we got a whole heap of the Skandinavia 'throw-outs, around here now. That don't say Skandinavia's workin' monkey tricks. Though they might be. You see, this sort of dope's been talked most everywhere, except on Labrador, years now. I guess we need to go through the bunch with a louse comb. But maybe the mischief's done.
Nancy's gaze followed the pointing finger. But it was not the snow she was thinking of. It was the man whom she beheld staggering under the tremendous weight of the Skandinavia's might. She felt pity for him. And incautiously she permitted Elas Peterman to realise her pity. "Can't anything be done?" she ventured gently. "Have you handled him? I mean Oh, I'm sure he's reasonable.
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