17/30 If it stiffens any further, it will break me; and that's not all, you see. That is the usual thing, and it's easy; but what the man in the hole wants to know is the means of getting out again." Alfreton smiled ruefully. I could just cover at to-day's prices if I pledged my crop, but it would leave me nothing to go on with, and the next advance would swamp the farm." "Well," said Winston quietly, "don't buy to-day. There's going to be an advance that will take folks' breath away, but the time's not quite ripe yet. |