[Winston of the Prairie by Harold Bindloss]@TWC D-Link bookWinston of the Prairie CHAPTER XXVI 18/21
Every dollar we put down has got to bring another in." "But," said Winston, "I don't know anything about milling." "Then," said Graham dryly, "You have got to learn.
A good many men have got quite rich in this country running things they didn't know much about when they took hold of them." "There's one more point," said Winston.
"I must make those thirty thousand dollars soon or they'll be no great use to me, and when I have them I may want to leave you." "That's all right," said Graham.
"By the time you've done it, you'll have made sixty for me.
We'll go out and have some lunch to clinch the deal if you're ready." It might have appeared unusual in England, but it was much less so in a country where the specialization of professions is still almost unknown, and the man who can adapt himself attains ascendency, and on the morrow Winston arrived at a big wooden building beside a pine-shrouded river.
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