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"Don't you knoe're not going to interfere with Colonel Cresswell's tenants?" He stated the dealers' attitude, and Alwyn saw light He went home and told Zora, and she listened without surprise

"Now to business," she said briskly "Miss S to the teacher, "as I told you, they're cooive Colonel Cresswell every chance Bles starts for Montgo

"Yes," said Zora, s in turn "We must lose no further tiht"

"But there's one fro and Barton is only twenty ht a while, silently Then he rose "I'," he said "Good-bye"

In less than a week the storehouse was full, and tenants were at work The twenty acres of cleared swamp land, attended to by the voluntary labor of all the tenants, was soon bearing a nificent crop Colonel Cresswell inspected all the crops daily with a proprietary air that would have been natural had these folk been si the was perhaps not so uniformly fine as the first acre of Silver Fleece, but it was of unusual height and thickness

"At least a bale to the acre," Alwyn estimated, and the Colonel mentally determined to take two-thirds of the crop After that he decided that he would evict Zora immediately; since sufficient land was cleared already for his purposes and razing in one field on sos in the swamp Such an example before the tenants of the Black Belt would be fatal He must wait a feeeks for the the battle of his color and caste

The children sang merrily in the brohite field The wide baskets, poised aloft, foa bodies of the dark carriers The crop throughout the land was short that year, for prices had ruled low last season in accordance with the policy of the Coain Would they fall? Many thought so and hastened to sell

Zora and Alwyn gathered their tenants' crops, ginned thein, and carried their cotton to tohere it was deposited in the warehouse of the Farue

"Now," said Alwyn, "ould best sell while prices are high"