Now what'll you sell it to us for ?" I put down the valve plug.

"Captain," said I, "that land is not for sale." "Not for SALE?
What do you mean by that ?" "I mean that I have decided not to sell it, for the present, at least.
Neither to Colton nor any one else." He could not believe it.

Of course I would not sell it to Colton.

Colton was a stuck-up, selfish city aristocrat who thought all creation ought to belong to him.

But the town was different.