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or lenient — the moment he gets inside a business 

 proposition every fact jumps to its proper place, 

 and not the smallest attendant detail is permitted 

 to remain in the shadow. A financial service is 

 none the less in Canada because you pay a higher 

 rate of interest than in England. At the particular 

 time I went to him every one was wanting money, 

 and almost at any price. He arranged to pay off 

 my predecessor and replace the mortgage. I had, 

 of course, to pay the current rate of interest, 8 

 per cent., and all expenses incidental to the charge, 

 and insurance against fire. I paid five hundred 

 dollars off the original mortgage, and it was arranged 

 that I should pay off that amount yearly and not 

 attempt to make the greater payment of a thousand 

 dollars. He advanced a minor and temporary loan 

 for the settlement of various payments, and pushed 

 my ship into smoother waters, so that I left in 

 peace, if not in plenty, for England via Ottawa, 

 where I had been promised an interview with the 

 Hon. Frank Oliver, Minister of the Interior in the 

 last Liberal Government, concerning the claim of 

 Woman to her fair share in the homestead lands 

 of Canada. 



Manual labour gives one time for thought. I 

 had an intimate knowledge of the life of the educated 

 working woman in Germany, Paris, and in England. 

 I knew that marriage was accepted by many women 

 as the sole resource against labour in a world 

 governed by laws made by men for men, where 

 there is but the scantest justice and scant wages 

 for the labour of women, because I had lived with 

 and amongst women-workers who had also to wake 



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