"Well, I'd have liked to keep him going if he'd stayed with me, but I can't stand for losing the dollars he owes.

What are we going to do about the thing ?" Keller explained his plans, and after some argument the other agreed.
The decision they came to would bring Charnock's farming to an end, but Keller left the office with some doubts.

His scheme was going to succeed, but he wondered whether he had indulged Sadie too far.

Much depended on her firmness, and she might find the job harder than she thought; but on the whole he imagined she would be equal to the strain.
A week later, Charnock sat, one afternoon, in the saddle of his gang-plow, tearing a row of furrows through the dusty sod.

The sweating horses moved leisurely, and he did not urge them as he moodily watched the tangled grass part before the shares and vanish beneath the polished surface of the turned-up clods.