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CHAPTER V (CONTINUED).
So, after all, there was a crack In the
fine structure Qf Jurgls* faith In things
as they are. The crack was wide,
while Dede Antanas was hunting a
job—and it was yet wider Vhen he
finally got It. For one evening the old
man came home in a great state of ex
citement, with the tale that • he ha a
been approached by a man in one of the
corridors of the pickle rooms of Dur
ham*?, and asked what he would pay
to get a job. He had not known what
to make df this at first; but the man
had gone on with matter-of-fact frank
ness to say that he could get him a
job, provided that he were willing to
pay one-third of his wages for It. Was
he a boss? Antanas had asked; to
which the man had replied that that
was nobody's business, but that he
could do what he said.
Jurgls had njade some friends by this
time, and he sought one of them and
asked what this meant. The friend,
who was named Tamoszlus ICuszlelka,
was a sharp little man who folded hides
on the killing beds, and he listened to
what Jurgls had to say without seem
ing at all surprised. They were com
mon enough, he said, such cases of
petty graft. , l^e .was simply, some boss
wno proposed to add £'little; to his'In
come. After Jurgls had been there
a while he would know that the plants
were simply honey-combed with rot
tenness of that sort—the bosses graft
ed off the men, and they grafted off
each other; and some-day the superin
tendent would find out about the boss,
and then he would graft off the boss.
Warming to the subject, Tamoszlus
went on to explain the situation. Here
was Durham’s, for Instance, owned by
a man who was trying to make as
much money out of It as he could, and
did not care In the least how he did
It; and underneath him, ranged in
ranks and grades like an army, were
managers and superintendents and
foremen, each one driving the man be
low him and trying to squeeze out of
him as much work as possible.
And all the men of the same rank
were pitted against each other; the ac
counts of each kept separately,^ and
every man lived in mortal terror of los
ing his job, if another made a better
record than he. So from top to •bot
tom the place was simply a seething
cauldron of jealousies ana hatreds;
there was no loyalty or decency any
where about It; the fit was no place In
It where a man counted for anything
against a dollar. And worse than there
being no decency, there was not even
any honesty. The reason for that.
Who could say? It must have been
old Durham In the beginning; It was a
heritage which the self-made merchant
had left to his son along with his mil
lions.
Jurgls would find out these things
for himself, If he rtayed there long
enough; It was the men who had to do
all the dirty Jobs, and so there was no
deceiving them; and they caught the
spirit of the place, and did like ail the
rest. Jurgls had come there, and
thought he was going to make himself
useful, and rise and bocome a ***>|®u
man; but he would soon find out his
erorr—for nobody rose In Packlngtown
by doing good work. You could lay
that down for a rule—if you met a
man who was rising In Packlngtown,
you met a knave. That man who had
iwen sent to Jurgls’ father’by the boss,
he would rise; the mart who told the
tale and spied upon his fellows would
rUe; but the man who minded his own
business and did his work—why, they
would "speed him up” till they had
worn him out, and then they would
throw him Into the gutter.
Jurgls want home with his head buz
zing. Yet he could not bring himself to
believe such things—no, it could not be
*0. Tamosslus was simply another of
thr grumblers. Hs was a man who
*i**m all his time fiddling; »nd he
would go to parties at night and not get
home till sunrise, and so of course he
did not feel like work. Then, too, ne
was a puny little chap; and so he had
been left behind In the race, and that
wa* why he was sore. And yet so many
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS
ernment Investigation Into the methods employed by the beef trust, has its origin
In nn actual l’ncklngtown romance.
The flrat chapter shows a broad-shouldered butcher being wedded to n young
girl who sees In him a hero. The wedding. In all Its grotesqueuess. Is described.
Practically peunlless. Jurgls tells bis bride she shall not return to work In
the packing house—he will work early and late, lie could not work harder, but
the thought of seeing her contribute toward their support was abhorrent to him.
On arriving in Chicago, J. fixedvllas, a Lithuanian, who ran a delicatessen store
In Packlngtown. guided Jurgls, Onn, Mnrljn and the remainder of the party
through the stock yards, after he bad given theur lodging. In this section of the
story the author reveals some of the things that have startled the country.
Finding the cost of living high, the little coterie decided to purchase a small
house, dividing the cost l»etwcen them, against the advice of Hzedvlln*. who said
they would Is? swindled. Hxedvllas went with Tetn Klxhleta and Onn to sign
the papers. Ho discovered the word "rental” In the Instalment contract. The
women, believing they had lieen trapped, were terrified. A lawyer prononneed
the paper regulnr. Their fright was shared by Jurgls. Another lawyer mollified
his wild fancies. Needed furnishings were.purchaseu on the same "easy payment"
Pln Jurgls, In his enormous strength, gloried In imlng able to keep up with picked
n trhn *a» ttm nApo In tho fiu-fti! ni*ri*al knntrit na "speeding the gntlg" at
men, who set the pace In the awful ordeal known
the slaughter house. When usked to ‘g| At *“ —
this evil, he declined with fine rage.
could the rest of them, he declared. If mey were goou ror anru
Antanas Kudkus. broken In health, was a victim of this system.
of the story
question."
had been Into every building In racklngtown," yesterday's Instalment
concludes. "He had been likewise to all the stores and saloons for
tltnes with curses, and hot
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strange things kept coming to Jurgls'
notice evry day!
He tried to persuade his father to
have nothing to do with the offer. But
old Antanas had begged until ho was
worn out, and all his courage waij
gone; he wanted a Job, any sort of a
job. So the next day he went and
found the fhan who had spoken to him.
and promised to bring him a third of
all he earned: and that same day he
was put to work In Durham's cellars.
It was a “pickle room,” where there
was never a dry spot to stand upon,
and so he hnd to take nearly a whole of
his first week's earnings to buy him a
pair of heavy-soled boots. Ho was a
•■squeedgle” man: his Job wns to go
about all day with a Ion/:- handled mop,
swabbing up the floor. Except that It
was damp and dark. It was not an un.
pleasant Job, In summer.
Now Antanas Kudkus was the meek
est man that God ever put on earth;
and so Jurgls found It a striking con-
flrmatlon of what the men all said, that
hla father had been at work only two
daya before he came home as bitter as
any of them, and cursing Durham's
with all the power of his soul. For they
had set him to cleaning out the traps:
and the family sat round and listened
In wonder while he told them what
that meant. It seemed that he was
working in the room where the men
S repared the beef for canning, and the
eef had lain In vats full of chemicals,
and men with great forks speared It
out and dumped It Into trucks, to bo
taken to the cooking room. When they
had apeared out all they could reach,
they emptied the vat on the floor, and
then with shovels scraped up the bal
ance and dumped It Into the truck.
This floor was filthy, yet they set An
tanas with his mop slopping the
"pickle” Into a hole that connected with
a sink, where it was caught and used
over again forever: and If that were
not enough, there wae a trap In the
pipe, where all the ecnapa of maat and
and ends of refuse were caught,
and every few daye It wae the old
man’e task to clean theee out, and
ehovel their content* Into one of the
trucks with the reet of the meat!
This wae the experience of Antanae;
and than there came aleo Jonae and
Marija with tales to tell. MarIJa was
working for one of the Independent
packers, and was quite beside hereelt
and outrageoue with triumph over the
sume of money ehe wee making as a
painter of cane. But one day aha
walked home with a pale-faced little
woman who worked opposite her, Jad-
vyga Marclnkue by name, and Jadvyga
told her how she, Marija, had chancad
to get her Job. She had taken the
place of an tilth woman who had been
working In that factory for over fifteen
years, so ehe declared. Mary Dennis
waa her name, and a long tlmt ago
she had been betrayed, and had a little
boy; he wae a cripple, and an epilep
tic, but etlll he waa all that she had
In the world to love, and they had
lived In a little room alone somewhere
back of Haleted street, where the Irish
were. Mary had had consumption, and
all day long you might hear her cough
ing as she worked: of late ehe nad
been going All to pieces, and when Ma-
rtja came, tha "forelady had suddenly
decided to turn her off. The forelady
Siad to come up to a certain standard
herself, and could not atop for alck
people, Jadvyga explained. The fact
that Mary had been there so long had
not made any difference to her—It waa
doubtful If ehe even knew that, for both
the forelady and the superintendent
were new people, having only been
there two or three years themselves.
Jadvyga did not know what had be
come of the poor creature: ahe would
hare gone to see her, but nad been
sick herself. She had pains In her back
all the time, Jadwga explained. It
was not fit work for a woman, handling
fourteen-pound cane all day.
It was a striking circumstance that
Jonas, took had gotten his Job by the
misfortune of some other person. Jonas
pushed a truck loaded with hams from
the emokeroorn on to an elevator, were bound to have
nnd thence to the packing rooms. The
trucks were all of Iron and hedvy, and
they put about three-score hnms on
each of them, a load of more than a
quarter of a ton. un the uneven Hour
It was a task for a man to start one
<>f these trucks, unless h»* whs a giant;
nnd when it was once started In* natur
ally tried Ills best to keep It going.
There was always the boss prowling
about, and If there was a second's de
lay he would fall to cursing; Lithuan
ians and Slovaks and such, who could
not understand what was said to them,
the bosses were wont to kick about
the place like so many dogs. There
for© these trucks went for the most
part on the run; and the predecessor
of Jonas had been Jammed against the
wall by on© and crushed In a horrible
manner.
mi of urn- sinister Incidents,
but they were trifles compared to what
Jurgls saw with his own eyes before
long.
One day a man slipped and hurt his
leg, and that afternoon, when the lost
of the cattle had been disposed of and
the men were leaving, Jurgls was or
dered to remain and do some special
work which this Injured man had
usually done. It was late, almost dark,
and the government Inspector* had all
gone, and there were only a dozen or
two of men on the floor. That day
they had killed about four thousand
cattle, and these had come In freight
trains from far states, and some of
them had got hurt. There were some
with broken legs nnd some with gored
sides; there were some that had died
from what cause no one could say.-and
they were oil to be disposed of here In
darkness and silence. "Downers," the
men called them, and the packing house
had a special elevator upon which
they were raised to the killing beds,
where the gang proceeded to handle
them, with nn air of business-like non
chalance which said plainer than any
words that It was a matter of every
day routine. It took a couple of hours
to get them out of the way. and In the
end Jurgls saw them go Into the chil
ling rooms with the rest of the meat,
being chrefully scattered here and
there ao that they could not be Identi
fied. When he came home that night
he was In a very sombre mood, having
begun to see at lost how those might
be right who had laufrhed *t him for
his faith In America.
Jurgls and Ona were very much In
love; they had wafted a long time—it
was now well Into the second year,
and Jurgls Judged everything by the
criterion of Its helping or hindering
their union. AH his thoughts were
there; he accepted the family because
It was part of Ona, and he was In
terested Ip the house because It was to
be Ona’s home. Even the tricks and
cruelties he saw at Durham's had little
meaning for him Just then, save as
they might happen to afreet his future
with Ona.
The marriage would have been at
once, If they, bad had their way; but
this would mean that they would have
to do without any wedding feaat, and
when they suggested this they came
Into conflict with the old people. To
Teta Elzbleta especially the very sug
gestion was an affliction. What! she
would cry. To be married, on the road
side like a parcel of beggars! No! No!
—Elzbleta had some traditions behind
her; she had been a person of fmpor- .that
tance In her girlhood—had lived on a
big estate and had servants, and might
have married w#U and been a lady but
for the fact that there had been nine i house and all that they had paid on
and then the friends would talk about
It
They must not give up what was
right for a little money—If they did, the
money would never do them any good,
they could depend upon that. And
Elzbleta would call upon Dede An
tanas to support her; there was a
fear In the souls of these two, lest
this Journey to a new country might
somehow undermine the old home vir
tues of their children. The very first
Sunday they had nil been taken to
mass.; and poor ns they were, Elzbleta
had felt it advisable to Invest a little
of her resourced In «.representation of
the babe of Bethlehem, made In plaster
and painted In brilliant colors. Though
it was only a foot high, there was a
shrine with four snow-white steeples,
and the Virgin standing with her child
In her arms, nnd the kings and shep
herds and wise men bowing down be
fore him. It had cost fifty cents; but
Elzbleta had a feeling that monoy spent
for such things was not to be counted
too closely, It would come book In
hidden ways. The piece was beauti
ful on the parlor mantel, and one could
not have a homo without some sort of
ornament.
The cost of the wedding feqst would,
of course, be returned to them; but the
problem was to ralso It even tempora
rily. They had been In the neighbor
hood so short a time that they could
not get much credit, and there was no
one "v < i-t S/.cd vitas from whom they
could borrow even a little. Evening
after evening, Jurgls nnd Ona would sit
and figure the expenses, calculating the
term of their separation. They could
not possibly manage It decently for
less than $200, and even though they
were welcome to count In the whole
ot the earnings of Marija and Jonas,
as a loan, they could not hope to raise
this sum In less than four or five
months. So Ona began thinking of
seeking employment herself, saying
that lr she hnd even ordinarily good
luck, sho might bo able to takp two
months off the time. They were Just
beginning to adjust themselves to this
necessity, when out of the dear sky
there fell a thunderbolt upon them—
a calamity that scattered all their
hopes to the four w In.Is;
About a block away from them there
lived another Lithuanian family, con
slating of an elderly widow and one
grown son; their name was Majausz-
ivi -, nnd our friends struck up an ac-
qualntance with them before long. One
evening they came over for a visit,
and naturally the first subject upon
which the conversation turned was
th«* nclghbot I, I mid Its history . ami
then Grandmother Majauszklene, as
the old lady was called, proceeded to
recite to them a string of horrors that
fairly froze their blood. She was
wrlnkled-up and wizened personage
she must havo been eighty—and os sho
mumbled the grim story through her
toothless gums, she seemed a very old
witch to them. Grandmother MajauBZ-
klene had lived In the midst or mis
fortune so long that It had come to be
her element, and she talked about
starvation, sickness and death as other
people might about weddings and holi
days.
The thing came gradually. In the
first place os to the house they had
bought. It was not new at all, as they
had supposed; It was about fifteen
years old, and there was nothing new
upon It but the paint, which was so
bad that It needed to be put on now
every year or two. The house was
<»n- "T a w i fha* un* built |,v
a company which existed to make
money by swindling poor people. The
family had paid $1,&00 for It, and it
had not coat the builders I&00 when it
was new. Grandmother Majauszklene
knew that, because her son belonged
to a political organzatlon with a con
tractor who put up exactly such houses.
They used the very flimsiest and
cheapest material; they built the
houses a dozen at a time, and they
cared about nothing at ail except the
outside shine. The family could take
her word as to the trouble they would
have, for she had been through It all
—she anfi her son had bought their
house In exactly the same way. They
had fooled the company, however, for
her son was a skilled man, who made
as high as $100 a month, and as he had
had sense enough not to marry they
had been able to pay for the house.
Grandmother Majauszkiene saw that
her friends were puzzled at this re
mark; they did not quit# see how pay
ing for the house was "fooling the
company." Evidently they were very
Inexperienced. Cheap as the houses
were, they were sold with tbe idea
that the people whp bought them
would not be able to pay for them.
When they failed—If It were only by s
single month—they would lose the
daughters and no sons In the family.
Even so, however, she knew wfyat was
decent and clung to her traditions with
desperation. They were not going to
lose si! caste, even If they had come
to be unskilled laborers (n Packing-
town; and that Ona had even talked
of omitting a vessellja waa enough
It, and then the company would sell
It over again. And did thsy often
get a chance to do that? Dieva!
I Grandmother Majauezktene raised h*-r
hands.) They did It—how often no one
could say, but certainly more than half
of the time. They might ask any one
who knew anything at all about Pack-
to keep her stepmother lying awake I Ingtown as to that; tns had been Uv-
all night. It wan in \ain for them to ' Ing here ever since this h«mse was
say that they had so few friends; they 1 built, and she could tell them all about
friends in time,'it. And had it ever been sold before?
UPTON'SINCLAIR.
Author of “The Jungle.**
Husimilkie! Why, since lr had been I but they had worked hard, and the
built no less than four families’ that ! father hnd been a steady man.
they hod a good deal more than half
their Informant could name had tried
to buy It nnd failed. Hhe would tell
them n little about It.
The first family had been Gormans.
The families had all been of different
nationalities—there hnd been a repre
scntutlve of several races that had
displaced each other In the stock yards,
Grandmother Majauszklene had come
to America with her son at n time
when so Car as sho knew there was
only one other Lithuanian family In
the district; the workers had all been
Germans then—skilled cattle butchers
that the packers had brought from
abroad to start the business. After
wards, as cheaper labor had come,
these Germans had moved away. The
next were the Irish—there had been
bIx or sight years when packlngtown
had been a regular Irish city. There
were a few colonies of them still here,
enough to run all the unions and the
police force nnd get nil the grart; but
the most of those who wertj working
In the packing houses had gone away
at the next drop In wages—after the
big strike. The Bohemians had com*
then, and after them the Poles. Peo
pie said that old man Durham him
self was responsible for these Immigra
tions; he had sworn that he would fix
the people of Packlngtown so that they
would never ngnln cnll a strike on him.
and so he had sent his agents Into
every city ami village in Europe to
spread the tale of the chances of work
and high wages at the stock yards.
The people had come In hordes, and
old Durham hod squeezed them tight
er nnd tighter, speeding them up and
? rinding them to pieces and sending
or new ones.
The Poles, who had come by tens
of thousands, had been driven to the
wall by the Lithuanians, and now the
Lithuanians were giving way to the
Slovaks. Who there was poorer and
more miserable than the Slovaks,
Grandmother Majauszklene had no
idea, but the packers would find them,
never fear. It was easy to bring
them, for wages were really much
higher and It was only when It was too
late that the poor people found out
that everything else was higher too.
They were like rats In a trap, that was
the truth; and more of them were
piling in every day. By and by they
would have their revenge, though, for
the thing was getting beyond human
endurance, and the people would rlae
and murder the packers. Grandmoth
er Majauszklene was a socialist, or
some such strange thing; another son
of hers was working In the mines of
Siberia, and the old lady herself had
hes in her time—which
made her seem all the more terrible
to her present auditors.
They called her bark to the story of j children,
the house. The German family had I the lawi
been s good sort. To be sure, there I there
had been a great many of them, whifh bit
as a common falling In Packlngtown; an*
paid for his house. But he had been
killed In an elevator accident In Dur
ham's,
Then there had come the Irish, nnd
there had been lots of them, too. The
husband drank and bent the children—
the neighbors could hear them shriek
ing any night. They were behind with
their rent all the time. But the com
pany was good to them. There was
some politics back of that. Grand
mother MgJgtiggkfaM could not say
^ st what, but the LfilTerty* had be-
■netd to the "War Whoop League,”
which waa a sort of political club of
all the thugs and rowdies In the dis
trict, slid lr you belonged to that you
could never be arrested for anything.
Once upon s time old Laflerty had
been caught with a gang that had
stolen cows from several of The poor
people 6t the neighborhood nnd butch
ered them In an old shanty of the
yards and sold them. He hnd been In
Jail only three days* for It, and hod
come out laughing and had not even
lost his place In the packing house.
He hod gone all to ruin with the
drink, however, and lost his power;
one of his sons, who was a good man,
had kept him and the fSmlty up for n
year or two, but then he had got sick
with consumption.
“There was another thing, Grand
mother Majauszklene Interrupted her
self—this house was unlucky. Every
family that lived In It, some one was
sure to get consumption. Nobody
could tell why that was; there must
be something about a house or the
way It was built—some folks said It
was because the building had been be
gun In the dark of the moon. The*©
were dozens of houses that way In
Packlngtown. Sometimes there would
be a particular room that you could
point out—If anybody slept In that
room he was Just as good ns dead.
With this house It had been the Irish
first;- and then a Bohemian family had
lost a child of It—though, to be sure,
that was uncertain, since It was hard
to tell what was the matter with chil
dren who worked in the yards. In
those days there hod been no law
about the ago of children -the pack
ers had worked all but the babies.
At this remark the family looked
puzzled, and Grandmother Majusz-
kiene again had' to make an explana
tion—that It was against the law for
children to work before they were six
teen. What was th«* sense of that?
they asked. They had been thinking of
letting Htanlslovu* go to work. Well,
there was no need to worry. Grand
mother Majauszklene said—the law
made no difference except that It forc
ed people to lie about the ages of their
old like to know what
ted them to
I of getting a living. Very often ft man
could get no work In Packlngtown for
months, while a child could end get
a place easily; there was always some
new machine, by whlcji the packets
could get n» much work out of a * hlld
ns they had been able to get out of a
man, ond for n third of the pay.
To rou.i- In- k Ho house again. It
was the woman of the next family that
hnd died. That wns after they hnd
been there nearly four years, and this
woman hnd had twins regularly every
year ,ni<J th*u«* hint »*♦•«• n more than
you * .hiIi 1 « ■•uni when they moved In.
After she died toe man would g<* to
u.»ik .ill . I ii \ ami leave them to shift
for tlieim-.-heM the neighbors would
help th* III ‘imw ami then, for they
would almost freoze to death. At tho
end there were three days that they
were alone before It was found out
that the father was dend. He wits a
"llonr■: mnn" at .lone-', ami a wounded
steer had broken loose and mashed
him ng'iliiMt a pillar Then the chil
dren had been taken away, and the
company hnd sola the house that very
same week to a party of emigrants.
Ho this grim old woman went on
with hei tale nf honors. How much of
It wns exaggeration—who could tell?
It was only too plausible. There was
that about consumption, for Instance.
The\ knew nothing about eonsumpthm
whatever except that it made people
cough; nnd for two weeks they had
been worrying about n coughing spell
of Antnnns. It seemed to shake hint
nil over, and If never stopped. YOU
could see a red stain wherever he had
spit upon the floor.
And yet all these things were as
nothing to what came a little later.
They had begun to question the old
Indy ns to why one family had been
unable to pay, trying to show her by
figures that It ought to have been )*e-
slble; and Grandmother Majauszklene
hnd disputed their figures “You say
$12 n month; but that does not Include
the Interest."
Then they starod at her. "Interest!”
they cried.
"interest on the merit? you still
owe." she answered.
"But we don’t have to pay any In-
tereet!" they exclaimed, three four
at once. "We only hnve to pay fli
each month."
And .for this she laughed at them.
You rii<- like all th** rest,” she said:
they trick >ou and eat you alive. They
never sell the houses without Internet.
Oet your deed nnd see."
Then, with n horrible sinking of tho
heart, Teta Elzbleta unlocked her bu
ll and In Might ..in Mi*- paper that
hnd already caused them so many
Now th* I **n> round, scarce
ly breathing, while the old Indy, wlm
could read English, ran over It. "Yes,”
•'ll** said, finallv ,, h*i*- It I**, of course:
•U IUi 1111«• i • • • t 111• • i *">ii Uhl', at the
rate of 7 per cent per annum.*,"
And there followed a dend silence.
"What does that mean?" asked Jurgls
finally, almost In n whisper.
’That means." replied the other,
"that you hnve to pay them $7 next
month, os well ns the $12.”
Then ngnln there was not a sound.
It was sickening. like a nightmare. In
which sudJenly something gives way
beneath you, and you feel fe*d your
self sinking, sinking, down Into bot
tomless abysses. As If In n flash of
lightning they saw therns**lves victim
relentless fate, cornered, trapped.
In the grip of destruction. All the
fair structure of their hopes earns
crashing about their enrs. And all the
time the old woman was going on
talking.
They wished that she would he still;
her voice sounded Just like the croak-
ng of somo dismal raven. Jurgls sat
with Ida hands clenched nnd beads of
perspiration on his forehead, nnd there
was a great lump In Ona’s throat,
choking her. Then suddenly Teta Kllz-
bleta broke the silence with « wall,
and Marija begun to wring her hands
and sob. *A1! A1! Beda man!"
All the|r outcry did them no good,
< our"*- There sat Grandmother
Majauszklene, unrelenting, typifying
fate. No, nf course it whs not fair,
but then fnlrneHS had nothing to da
Ith It. And of course they had not
n It. They had not been Intended
kno
It. But It
he deed,
cssary,
time
mllles that had no possl-
jpport except the children
rovlded them no other way
Somehow or other they got rl*1 of
heir guest, and then they passed a
lght of lamentation The children
oke up and found out that something
a* ur.ng nnd th*-v walled and would
not be comforted In the m<.rnlug, of
course, most of them had to go to
work; the packinghouse would not stop
their sorrows; but by 7 o'clock Ona and
her stepmother were standing at the
door of the office of the agent. Yes,
he to!d them, when he came, it was
quite true that thev would have to
pay Interest. And then Teta Elzbleta
broke forth Into protestation# and re-
prooches, so that the people outside
Stopped and peered In at the window.
The ag*nt was ns bland as aver. He
was deeply pained, he said. He had
not told them slniplv because he had
supposed they would understand that
[they had to pay interest upon their
debt
ontinued in Tor
awe Georgian.)