Pay your debt or this Bank will take your wife away
Borrowing money to keep your plantation running in the hard times could mean paying it back might include your wife as interest. It was a warm spring night, Mathew James sat around the table with his wife Elizabeth , the two men and there wives that owed him money sat silently each sipping a glass of wine. Another wet cold spring, a bone dry summer , then pouring rain day after day at harvest time had made for a disastrous crop for the second year running, any chance the two men had of paying even the interest on the loan to the Mississippi Bank of Burnt Bridge owned by Mathew James had gone, and and any thought of paying off the actual loan was a pipe dream. Mathew James sat taunting his guests, smiling and …
Pay your debt or this Bank will take your wife away Read More »