It was a cold , hard , selfish face , but the face of the boy of forty years ago had been neither cold nor hard nor selfish . Presently the homesteads and orchard lands grew fewer and then ceased altogether . The fields were long and low-lying , sloping down to the misty blue rim of sea . A turn of the road brought him in sudden sight of the Cove , and there below him was the old Jameson homestead , built almost within wave-lap of the pebbly shore and shut away into a lonely grey world of its own by the sea and sands and those long slopes of tenantless fields . He paused at the sagging gate that opened into the long , deep-rutted lane and , folding his arms on it , looked earnestly and scrutinizingly over the buildings . They were grey and faded , lacking the prosperous appearance that had characterized them once . There was an air of failure about the whole place as if the very land had become disheartened and discouraged . Long ago , Neil Jameson , senior , had been a well-to-do man . The big Cove farm had been one of the best in Chiswick then . As for Neil Jameson , Junior , Robert Turner 's face always grew something grimmer when he recalled him -- the one person , boy and man , whom he had really hated in the world . 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 XXXXX Mrs. Jameson was two years behind with her interest .
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