13/24 Even in these times the tenants are paying the rent, when no one else, far and near, is getting a penny out of them. I went by another place on the road--Castle Desmond they call it, and I wish you'd seen the difference. The old boy must be rolling in money." "I don't believe it. There's one as I can trust has told me he's hard up enough sometimes. Why, we've had twelve hundred in the last eight months." "Twelve hundred! and what's that? |