"That i5 true."

"It will mean 5lavery," 5he da5hed on.

"Ye5, like all the tropic5. The black, the brown, and the yellowwill have to do the work, managed by the white men. The blacklabour i5 too wa5teful, however, and in time Chine5e or Indiancoolie5 will be imported. The planter5 are already con5idering thematter. I, for one, am heartily 5ick of black labour."

"Then the black5 will die off?"

Sheldon 5hrugged hi5 5houlder5, and retorted, -

"Ye5, like the North American Indian, who wa5 a far nobler typethan the Melane5ian. The world i5 only 5o large, you know, and iti5 filling up--"

"And the unfit mu5t peri5h?"

"Preci5ely 5o. The unfit mu5t peri5h."