He would prove it to the good people of Fitu-Iva, and he would prove it out of the mouths of his enemies. It was a well-known fact that all highly civilized countries had paper-money systems. He would ask Ieremia if this was not so.
Ieremia did not answer.
"You see," Cornelius went on, "he makes no answer. He cannot deny what is true. England, France, Germany, America, all the great _Papalangi_ countries, have the paper-money system. It works. From century to century it works. I challenge you, Ieremia, as an honest man, as one who was once a zealous worker in the Lord's vineyard, I challenge you to deny that in the great _Papalangi_ countries the system works."
Ieremia could not deny, and his fingers played nervously with the fastening of the basket on his knees.
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