The mortgage he holds on it is due next week and I can't pay it.

Wouldn't even if I had the money.

We're going to pull up stakes and leave." Bryant silently regarded the other's haggard face and stooped figure, whose expression and resigned attitude revealed clearly Stevenson's surrender.

He was a man discouraged, disheartened, whipped.
"What's wrong with the sheep ?" he questioned, at length.
"Not much that isn't wrong.

When I started five years ago, I invested in three thousand head.