He took from his pocket the note-book in which he entered his orders, and went over it.

It contained an attenuated list.

Moreover, the harvest had been bad, and old debts very difficult to collect.

Mr.Quinn listened, apparently not very attentively, and when the reading was over said: 'What you report this week is simply a repetition of the story of the last six months.

I did not expect it to be different.