"It isn't very much, Colonel.

I'll take all your wheat off you at three cents down." Now Barrington did not like the broker's smile.

It savored too much of equality, and, though he had already unbent as far as he was capable of doing, he had no great esteem for men of business.

Nor did it please him to be addressed as "Colonel." "That," he said coldly, "is out of the question.

I would not sell at the last market price.