But 200,000 was old price for this information.

可是这资讯 不只二十万美金。

But it could not buy the whole at any thing near the old price; and therefore, whatever it did buy, it necessarily bought very cheap.

但它无法以接近旧价的任何价格购买全部；因此，无论它购买什么，它都必然以非常便宜的价格购买。

But the town isn't what it was in those days, and times aren't what they were then, and these fearful PRICES aren't the old prices.

但是这个小镇不是那个时候的样子， 时代也不是那个时候的样子， 这些可怕的价格也不是以前的价格了。