I had a brain-cramp there for a minute, the smile said, but now sanity has reasserted itself.

an extortable victim

Persuading the widow that my connexion with her husband's 'technical matters' was sufficient to entitle me to his manuscript, I bore the document away and […]

In the sugar areas to the north and south of the Colony cane has been known to ratoon for 20 to 30 years.