He tells how his brother Victor, a boy who started with nothing, imagined owning a building as if it were true; two years later a stranger was the means by which they bought it, and the family is now the most financially prominent on the island, with the governor seeking Victor's advice.
Date (happened)
between 1919 and 1924
unresolved
before 1970
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [554496] belong to telling lecture nids [2171]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1970 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1970 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 26 November 1970
bound · probable
Why
Supersedes the weak L6a envelope claim in precision and confidence; that claim is left in place, not deleted.
Reasoning
The story is narrated as already-established present fact ('for today, they don't need anyone to help them') within lecture nid 2171, whose delivery is bounded to 26-30 November 1970 by the Bhola cyclone and Thanksgiving-weekend road-toll references (d1, probable/supported) - a stronger, independently-derived bound than the existing generic L6a year-envelope (possible). The building purchase and the two-year visualisation therefore predate 1970-11-26.
between 1919 and 1924
estimated · possible
Why
M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 028)
Reasoning
Passage 554496: Victor's two-year vision, then the purchase. Chronology has two pairs (9155 1919 / 9156 1921 and 16231 1922 / 16283 1924, with several 1924 purchase entries), so the range is 1919-1924, leaning to 1924 for the purchase.
Sources
Source
- There Is No Evil ¶47 (This particular vision took two years, and an almost uncanny stranger was the means by which we bought the building for eight hundred and forty thousand dollars — the same building for which we only paid fifty thousand, we saw grow to over eight hundred …)
- There Is No Evil ¶0 (Bhola cyclone (12-13 Nov 1970) described as recent, and Thanksgiving weekend road toll as current, bound delivery to 26-30 Nov 1970)