Schools joining the cooperative were assessed an initial membership fee to purchase a high-speed tape duplicator and about 200 tapes.

Q. Now, then, when you started to go to stake the claims, who all went along? A. I and Johan Peter Johansen, Otto Greiner, and Thorulf Kjelsberg.

[…] abruptly, his head craned into the limited space between Mrs. Silsburn and me. “Driver,” he said peremptorily, and waited for a response. When it came with promptness, his voice became a bit more tractile, democratic: “How long do you think we’ll be tied up here?”

Certain portions of the conversation of the talkative old clerk, which had wearied me at the time, now recurred to my memory with a new significance; and a suspicion crossed my mind darkly, which had not occurred to me while I was in the vestry.