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future easy dealings with Mr. Green. Ah too trust- 

 ing ones, Behold your ultimatum ! Move on, or be 

 expelled ! Choose, and quickly ! 



Rebellion is in the hearts of the interlopers. Heaven 

 help them ! what may they do ? The Calcutta House 

 who had so frankly taken them up and volunteered 

 to tide them over difficulties by a mere mortgage of 

 block and crop the Agents themselves submit to 

 Mr. Green and withdraw. Mr. Green is inexorable. 

 They curse him and move on. They do not despair, 

 for they advance still further into the jungles ; and, 

 late in the season, they build two vats, drop money 

 and a partner, and toss rudderless on a sea of trouble 

 across which it is doubtful whether they will ever 

 pass. 



It will thus be seen that the question of interlop- 

 ing is at the present moment a most urgent one. 

 Indeed, rules have been framed by the Indigo Planters' 

 Association which are designed to discourage interlop- 

 ing as between Europeans themselves. The folly of 

 attempted intrusion, where space for development is 

 insufficient for the man already in possession, is too 

 self-evident to call for further notice here. But 

 reasonable men have never been able to see why 

 jealousy should intervene to debar men from build- 

 ing and pushing a business in tracts or dehats where 

 there is room enough for all. 



R., In. 



