You know how things stand, and how impossible it is to hasten matters.

At the present moment there seems every probability of my being able to discharge all my accounts--yours among them--considerably earlier than the time first mentioned.

It is worth your while, under the circumstances, reconsidering what, you must allow me to say, is a preposterous claim for interest.

Of course, if you charge me for the full term, I have very little inducement to settle up sooner.

Turn it over, like a sensible man, and believe me, meanwhile, "Yours truly, "E.O.
"_P.S_ .-- I enclose a copy of the clauses of the will most likely to interest you.