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Updated: May 2, 2025
Many thousands have been spent on tea-gardens much more, I suspect, than has yet been got out of them. A tea-planter once pointed to a cluster of well-built villages, and said, "These houses have all been built within the last few years by the proceeds of wages made in the tea-garden under my charge."
All this will give an idea of the variety of duties of a tea-planter. He has no time for shooting, polo, or visiting during the busy season. But at mid-winter the great annual Mela takes place at the station, the local seat of Government. The Mela lasts a couple of weeks, and it is a season of fun and jollity with both planters and natives.
It was built for a wealthy Quaker family, and they occupied it, uninterruptedly and apparently without anything unusual occurring, for over forty years. Then it was sold to a Mr. Maddison and Mr. Maddison died there six months ago." "Maddison?" said Smith sharply, staring across at Weymouth. "What was he? Where did he come from?" "He was a retired tea-planter from Colombo," replied the inspector.
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