It is for your good." In vain Arthur offered an advance upon the original advance price.
"No, Arthur, boy," he repeated.
"No, Arthur, boy," he continued to repeat.

"It is not wise for you to be creepled in your business." Arthur protested that he would not be crippled, but with no avail.

He went away disappointed, and yet with his faith unshaken.

He did not know what transpired later on, that negotiations which would materially enhance the value of the property were being carried on with a railroad by the planter, who was himself one of the railroad directors.
About six months after Arthur's attempt to purchase back his ancestral acres, and while he was at high tide of a small prosperity, this same man came to him with a proposal for him to furnish on contract a large quantity of coal to this same railroad.

Arthur jumped at the chance.