The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: "And so," said Von Blix, "for Mr. Tudor's expedition we must have
some black-boys. Can we get them from you?"
"Of course we will pay," Tudor broke in. "You have only to charge
what you consider them worth. You pay them six pounds a year,
don't you?"
"In the first place we can't spare them," Sheldon answered. "We
are short of them on the plantation as it is."
"WE?" Tudor asked quickly. "Then you are a firm or a partnership?
I understood at Guvutu that you were alone, that you had lost your
partner."
Sheldon inclined his head toward Joan, and as he spoke she felt
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