"Rad has managed the whole plantation for the last three years.

His father was getting too old for business and if Rad hadn't taken hold, things would have gone to the deuce long ago.

All he got as a regular salary was fifty dollars a month; I think it was time he was paid for his services." "Oh, very well," Terry laughed.

"I was merely asking the question.

And if you will allow me to go a step further, why did Colonel Gaylord object to settling something on the boy ?" "He wanted to keep him under his thumb.