fully. To him a fight was recreation, but others might feel differently about it.
"And it's the salvation of Easton and Wilder," continued the colonel. "As long as people can enjoy the sweet, fresh air, the grateful bathing, the fishing and boating and other recreations, they won't bother about their rights. I feel that way myself. No man knows better than I how our people have been despoiled, for I've been here many years and at one time owned an interest in the place myself. But others know the truth as well as I do, and if my neighbors prefer to submit, surely I am not called upon to fight their battles for them."
"Why did you sell out your interest?" asked Jarrod.
The colonel held a scrap of paper in his hands. He carefully twisted it between his fingers into a neat spiral before he replied.
"There are two ways to make
