17/37 "I couldn't get rid of Stovey in that way," he said, plaintively. "He'll be glad enough to walk off with a twenty-pound note, which I'll give him. He can't make money out of the place. He hasn't got means to stock it, and then see the wages that hay-making runs away with! He'd lose by it even at what he's paying, and he knows it. There won't be any difficulty about Stovey." By twelve o'clock on that day Mr.Stovey had been brought into the house, and had resigned the land. |