He thought it was the last straw. The very last. He was back under canvas, and the Governor was planning the rooms he’d add to the main building; a building Cross had constructed especially for the Cygnet River’s Governor’s summer home, and which Killam had later claimed as his own. And now the new Governor’s family was right there, watching the garden ripen. No surplus to hide away now. Killam never thought he’d miss the barracks and the company of soldiers and he wondered if he’d done the right thing handing in his resignation. And staying here? It was bad for business having the Governor at The Farm, and how was Killam gunna make his way? And now he had these black boys of the Governor’s. Chaine couldn’t stop grinning when he brought them to Killam and said the Governor wanted them made useful, trained to be capable working men. They’d work for keep, the Governor had said, until they prove their worth. Train them to be useful, they are simply a burden upon me at present.
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