"Is it for my good that I make the road? What benefit do you think I get out of it? It is for you, so that you can walk in comfort and carry your copra in comfort. I offered to pay you for your work, though it was for your own sake the work was done. I offered to pay you generously. Now _you_ must pay. I will send the people of Manua back to their homes if you will finish the road and pay the twenty pounds that I have to pay them."

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