But Greenwood was there, busily examining bales of cotton and singing and scolding alternately as he worked.

John joined him and they had a hard morning's work together, throughout which only one subject occupied both minds--the mill and cotton to feed its looms.
In the afternoon Greenwood took up the more human phase of the question.
He told John that six of their unmarried men had gone to America.

"They think mebbe they'll be a bit better off there, sir.

I don't think they will." "Not a bit." "And while you were away Jeremiah Stokes left his loom forever.

It didn't put him out any.