I should say that and the mill were easily worth half a million, and they're both clear.

That's all in sight." The colonel ruminated a moment and then continued: "About the rest--it's a guess.

Some say a million, some say ten.

All I know in point of fact, my dear, to get right down to bed-rock, is that Lycurgus says they are turning out two or three car-loads of the strips a year.

I wouldn't believe Lycurgus on a stack of Bibles as high as his head, but little Thayer Ward, who works down there in the shipping department, told the general the same thing, and Bob says he knows John gets ten dollars apiece for them now, so that's a million dollars a year income he's got.