Malaria gets us all, but as a rule it gets strangers, particularly the young, soonest.
Looks as if the microbe liked fresh blood." "If I was an African merchant, I'd let an agent run my factories," Brown remarked.
Montgomery smiled.

"Sometimes it's necessary for me to come out.

This factory is perhaps our best, and when Nevis, our agent, died, I started by the first boat.

Montgomery's is an old house, but since the big men combined and the Amalgamation built a factory on the next creek, we have had some trouble to pull along.

Our capital is small and we can't use up-to-date methods.