e voted by
the People. This money shell be used by the sed Company Limited to
construc damns an sich eloquent an discomojus impertinences which then
they kin sell the sed lans an impertinences to immigraters factorians an
minors an in that means pay divies on the Stock an so evvybody get mo or
less molasses on his finger an his vote Skewered. Thattle fetch white
immigration an thattle ketch the white-liner's vote. But where some
dever an as soon as any six miles square shell contain twenty white
children of school Age the sed Company Limited shell be boun to bill an
equip for them a free school house. An faw evvy school house so billden
sed Company Limited shell be likewise boun to bill another sommers in
the three Counties where a equal or greater number of collared children
are without one. Thattle skewer the white squatter and Nigger vote."

The next clause--there was only a line or two besides--brought an
audible exclamation from the reader: "Lassly faw evvy sich school house
so bilt the sed Co. Limited shell pay a sum not less than its cost to
some white male college in the three counties older then the sed Company
Limited."

John marvelled. What was Garnet doing or promising, that Leggett should
thus single out Rosemont for subsidies? And who was this in the letter's
closing line--certainly not Garnet--who would "buy both fists full" of
stock as soon as the bill should pass? He stepped out and walked along
the windy street immersed in thought.

"John!"--General Halliday beckoned to him. The General and Proudfit were
pushing into the lattice doors of a fragrant place whose bulletin
announced "Mock Turtle Soup and Venison for Lunch To-day." March joined
them. "Had your lunch, John? I heard you were looking for me."

"Well, yes, but there's no hurry." The three stood and ate, talking over
incidents of war times, with John at a manifest disadvantage, and
presently they passed from the luncheon trestles to the bar.

"No, Proudfit, if Garnet hadn't come in on our left just then and
charged the moment he did we'd have lost the whole battery. Garnet was a
poor soldier in camp, you're right; but on the field you'd only to tease
him and he'd fight like a wild bull."

They drank, lighted cigars, and sauntered out toward the General's
office. "John, I've read what you wrote me. I can't see it. We'll never
colonize any lands in Dixie, my boy, till we've changed the whole system
of laws under which we rent land and raise