They had been enemies from childhood , and once in a bout of wrestling at the Chiswick school Neil had thrown him by an unfair trick and taunted him continually thereafter on his defeat . Robert had made a compact with himself that some day he would pay Neil Jameson back . He had not forgotten it -- he never forgot such things -- but he had never seen or heard of Neil Jameson after leaving Chiswick . He might have been dead for anything Robert Turner knew . Then , when John Kesley failed and his effects turned over to his creditors , of whom Robert Turner was the chief , a mortgage on the Cove farm at Chiswick , owned by Neil Jameson , had been found among his assets . 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 XXXXX the business sky foretold squalls .
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