And now you can understand why a good deal of the other progress in this State is obliged to go as slowly over their equally decaying and rotten foundations.

You can't rush things here as we do in the North." The other passenger shrugged his shoulders as they remounted the platform, and the train moved on.

It was not the first time that the two fellow-travelers had differed, although their mission was a common one.

The elder, Mr.Cyrus Drummond, was the vice-president of a large Northern land and mill company, which had bought extensive tracts of land in Georgia, and the younger, Colonel Courtland, was the consulting surveyor and engineer for the company.

Drummond's opinions were a good deal affected by sectional prejudice, and a self-satisfied and righteous ignorance of the actual conditions and limitations of the people with whom he was to deal; while the younger man, who had served through the war with distinction, retained a soldier's respect and esteem for his late antagonists, with a conscientious and thoughtful observation of their character.