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Just
as
soon
as
the
baby
was
born
and
she
could
go
back
to
work
,
she
would
get
rid
of
Hugh
and
hire
some
one
else
.
Anyone
would
do
better
.
And
she
would
never
fool
with
free
niggers
again
.
How
could
anyone
get
any
work
done
with
free
niggers
quitting
all
the
time
?
"
Frank
,
"
she
said
,
after
a
stormy
interview
with
Hugh
over
his
missing
workmen
,
"
I
've
about
made
up
my
mind
that
I
'll
lease
convicts
to
work
the
mills
.
A
while
back
I
was
talking
to
Johnnie
Gallegher
,
Tommy
Wellburn
's
foreman
,
about
the
trouble
we
were
having
getting
any
work
out
of
the
darkies
and
he
asked
me
why
I
did
n't
get
convicts
.
It
sounds
like
a
good
idea
to
me
.
He
said
I
could
sublease
them
for
next
to
nothing
and
feed
them
dirt
cheap
.
And
he
said
I
could
get
work
out
of
them
in
any
way
I
liked
,
without
having
the
Freedman
's
Bureau
swarming
down
on
me
like
hornets
,
sticking
their
bills
into
things
that
are
n't
any
of
their
business
.
And
just
as
soon
as
Johnnie
Gallegher
's
contract
with
Tommy
is
up
,
I
'm
going
to
hire
him
to
run
Hugh
's
mill
.
Any
man
who
can
get
work
out
of
that
bunch
of
wild
Irish
he
bosses
can
certainly
get
plenty
of
work
out
of
convicts
.
"
Convicts
!
Frank
was
speechless
.
Leasing
convicts
was
the
very
worst
of
all
the
wild
schemes
Scarlett
had
ever
suggested
,
worse
even
than
her
notion
of
building
a
saloon
.
At
least
,
it
seemed
worse
to
Frank
and
the
conservative
circles
in
which
he
moved
.
This
new
system
of
leasing
convicts
had
come
into
being
because
of
the
poverty
of
the
state
after
the
war
.
Unable
to
support
the
convicts
,
the
State
was
hiring
them
out
to
those
needing
large
labor
crews
in
the
building
of
railroads
,
in
turpentine
forests
and
lumber
camps
.
While
Frank
and
his
quiet
churchgoing
friends
realized
the
necessity
of
the
system
,
they
deplored
it
just
the
same
.
Many
of
them
had
not
even
believed
in
slavery
and
they
thought
this
was
far
worse
than
slavery
had
ever
been
.
And
Scarlett
wanted
to
lease
convicts
!
Frank
knew
that
if
she
did
he
could
never
hold
up
his
head
again
.
This
was
far
worse
than
owning
and
operating
the
mills
herself
,
or
anything
else
she
had
done
.
His
past
objections
had
always
been
coupled
with
the
question
:
"
What
will
people
say
?
"
But
this
--
this
went
deeper
than
fear
of
public
opinion
.
He
felt
that
it
was
a
traffic
in
human
bodies
on
a
par
with
prostitution
,
a
sin
that
would
be
on
his
soul
if
he
permitted
her
to
do
it
.
From
this
conviction
of
wrongness
,
Frank
gathered
courage
to
forbid
Scarlett
to
do
such
a
thing
,
and
so
strong
were
his
remarks
that
she
,
startled
,
relapsed
into
silence
.
Finally
to
quiet
him
,
she
said
meekly
she
had
n't
really
meant
it
.
She
was
just
so
outdone
with
Hugh
and
the
free
niggers
she
had
lost
her
temper
.
Secretly
,
she
still
thought
about
it
and
with
some
longing
.
Convict
labor
would
settle
one
of
her
hardest
problems
,
but
if
Frank
was
going
to
take
on
so
about
it
--
She
sighed
.
If
even
one
of
the
mills
were
making
money
,
she
could
stand
it
.
But
Ashley
was
faring
little
better
with
his
mill
than
Hugh
.
At
first
Scarlett
was
shocked
and
disappointed
that
Ashley
did
not
immediately
take
hold
and
make
the
mill
pay
double
what
it
had
paid
under
her
management
.
He
was
so
smart
and
he
had
read
so
many
books
and
there
was
no
reason
at
all
why
he
should
not
make
a
brilliant
success
and
lots
of
money
.
But
he
was
no
more
successful
than
Hugh
.
His
inexperience
,
his
errors
,
his
utter
lack
of
business
judgment
and
his
scruples
about
close
dealing
were
the
same
as
Hugh
's
.
Scarlett
's
love
hastily
found
excuses
for
him
and
she
did
not
consider
the
two
men
in
the
same
light
.
Hugh
was
just
hopelessly
stupid
,
while
Ashley
was
merely
new
at
the
business
.
Still
,
unbidden
,
came
the
thought
that
Ashley
could
never
make
a
quick
estimate
in
his
head
and
give
a
price
that
was
correct
,
as
she
could
.
And
she
sometimes
wondered
if
he
'd
ever
learn
to
distinguish
between
planking
and
sills
.
And
because
he
was
a
gentleman
and
himself
trustworthy
,
he
trusted
every
scoundrel
who
came
along
and
several
times
would
have
lost
money
for
her
if
she
had
not
tactfully
intervened
.
And
if
he
liked
a
person
--
and
he
seemed
to
like
so
many
people
!
--
he
sold
them
lumber
on
credit
without
ever
thinking
to
find
out
if
they
had
money
in
the
bank
or
property
.
He
was
as
bad
as
Frank
in
that
respect
.
