"I will give you six hundred."
The landlord looked at him in amazement.
"I am quite agreeable," he said.
"But on one condition."
"What is it?"
"That to-morrow, so soon as the sale is completed, you will mount your horse—you have one, I suppose?"
"Yes."
"Well, you will mount, start, and never show yourself here again."
"Oh! You may be quite certain on that point."
"It's settled then?"