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Nobody’s Man

CHAPTER IV
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"You lend them youngsters money and then you come to me, a man who's been on this land for twenty-two years, and you've nothing to say but 'get out!' Where am I to find another farm at my time of life?
Just answer me that, will you ?" "It is not my concern," Jane declared.

"I only know that I decline to have any tenants on my property who do not do justice to the land.

When I see that they do justice to it, then it is my wish that they should possess it.

It is true that I have lent money to some of the farmers round here, but the greater part of what they have put down for the purchase of their holdings is savings,--money they had saved and earned by working early and late, by careful farming and husbandry, by putting money in the bank every quarter.

You've had the same opportunity.


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