Crops growing in the favored parts are occasionally frozen.

It's a coincidence that a day or two ago I got a letter inquiring about that kind of wheat from a friend in Canada who is, as it happens, farming with a cousin of Lansing's." Then he laughed.

"All this, however, has nothing to do with the object of your visit.

Give me a few more minutes to think it over." There was silence except for the rattle of wheels outside while he smoked half a cigar; then he turned to his companions.
"I'll go out and undertake your work.

I believe you're acting wisely, and that Lansing will be sorry after a while that he threw away his interest in the scheme." They discussed the details of the project and then the business men went away, satisfied.