Rare Earth
soil is good. I doubt if any farm around could be more productive. Owning such a strip of land you could never be poor. I tell you what I'll do. I'll run this farm for you on shares. It would be a fine thing for me. I've been looking for a spot like this. I have a farm of my own but I could easily run this as well. I've got plenty of time to give to it. What do you say? Shall we be partners?"
Linda's eyes were shining, glistening with tears and when she spoke her voice trembled. "Oh, what can I say?" She clasped and unclasped her hands. "You are so good to me. Yesterday I was so helpless. And now this. I don't have to go away. Now I can wait. Oh, if only you knew what this meant to me!"
"That's quite all right," Jethro hastened to assure her. "From my own point of view I'm rather pleased that you like the arrangements. You haven't anything to thank me for. I've suggested an excellent business deal for myself, one of the best I've ever made. What do you say, Gage, am I not right?"
"'E sure is," said Samuel Gage emphati-
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