"The legacy lately left you by Roger Courthorne.

I have brought you a schedule of the wheat in store, and amounts due to you on various sales made.

You will also find the acreage, stock, and implements detailed at a well-known appraiser's valuation, which you could of course confirm, and Colonel Barrington would hand you a check for half the total now.

He, however, asks four years to pay the balance in, which would carry bank interest in the meanwhile." Winston, who was glad of the excuse, spent at least ten minutes studying the paper, and realized that it referred to a large and well-appointed farm, though it occurred to him that the crop was a good deal smaller than it should have been.

He noticed this as it were instinctively, for his brain was otherwise very busy.
"Colonel Barrington seems somewhat anxious to get rid of me," he said.
"You see, this land is mine by right." "Yes," said the lawyer.