Inquiry revealed the fact that Neil Jameson was dead and that the farm was run by his widow . Turner felt a pang of disappointment . What satisfaction was there in wreaking revenge on a dead man ? But at least his wife and children should suffer . That debt of his to Jameson for an ill-won victory and many a sneer must be paid in full , if not to him , why , then to his heirs . His lawyers reported that Mrs. Jameson was two years behind with her interest . Turner instructed them to foreclose the mortgage promptly . Then he took it into his head to revisit Chiswick and have a good look at the Cove farm and other places he knew so well . He had a notion that it might be a decent place to spend a summer month or two in . His wife went to seaside and mountain resorts , but he liked something quieter . There was good fishing at the Cove and in Chiswick pond , as he remembered . If he liked the farm as well as his memory promised him he would do , he would bid it in himself . It would make Neil Jameson turn in his grave if the penniless lad he had jeered at came into the possession of his old ancestral property that had been owned by a Jameson for over one hundred years . There was a flavour in such a revenge that pleased Robert Turner . He smiled one of his occasional grim smiles over it . When Robert Turner smiled , weather prophets of the business sky foretold squalls . Presently he opened the gate and went through . Halfway down the lane forked , one branch going over to the house , the other slanting across the field to the cove . Turner took the latter and soon found himself on the grey shore where the waves were tumbling in creamy foam just as he remembered them long ago . Nothing about the old cove had changed ; he walked around a knobby headland , weather-worn with the wind and spray of years , which cut him off from sight of the Jameson house , and sat down on a rock .
He thought himself alone and was annoyed XXXXX find a boy sitting on the opposite ledge with a book on his knee .
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