talk‚ÅÝ‚Äîready?‚Äù And quite forgetting Miss Cresswell, he bolted into the parlor.
“The decision we have come to is this,” said Harry Cresswell. “We are in debt, as you know.”
‚ÄúForty-nine thousand, seven hundred and forty-two dollars and twelve cents,‚Äù responded Taylor; ‚Äúin three notes, due in twelve, twenty-four, and thirty-six months, interest at eight percent, held by‚ÅÝ‚Äî‚Äù
The Colonel snorted his amazement, and Harry Cresswell cut in:
“Yes,” he calmly admitted; “and with good crops for three years we’d be all right; good crops even for two years would leave us fairly well off.”
“You mean it would relieve you of the present stringency and put you face to face with the falling price of cotton and