They all understood the old goose, and were aware, nearly to a bushel, of the amount of wheat which the man had sold off those two fields.

Runciman knew that the interest on the mortgage had been paid, and could only have been paid out of the produce; and Larry Twentyman knew that if Goarly took his 7_s._ 6_d._ an acre he would be better off than if the wood had not been there.

But yet among them all they didn't quite see how they were to confute the Senator's logic.

They could not answer it satisfactorily, even among themselves; but they felt that if Goarly could be detected in some offence, that would confute the Senator.

Among themselves it was sufficient to repeat the well-known fact that Goarly was a rascal; but with reference to this aggravating, interfering, and most obnoxious American it would be necessary to prove it.
"His Lordship has put it into Masters's hands, I'm told," said the doctor.