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Winston of the Prairie

CHAPTER XXII
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You still expect to buy at lower prices before the time to make delivery comes ?" Again the care crept into Barrington's face, and he sat silent for almost a minute.

Then he said, very slowly, "I feel that I should resent the question, but I will answer.

It is what I hope to do." "Well," said Winston, "I am afraid you will find prices higher still.
There is very little wheat in Minnesota this year, and what there was in Dakota was cut down by hail.

Millers in St.Paul and Minneapolis are anxious already, and there is talk of a big corner in Chicago.
Nobody is offering grain, while you know what land lies fallow in Manitoba, and the activity of their brokers shows the fears of Winnipeg millers with contracts on hand.

This is not my opinion alone.


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