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Taking a stroll to grandpap’s land, Lum tries to show Abner his idea on softening the blow of the eviction they have been forced to serve on their long time friend. For the sake of a mineral spring, a big time contractor seems to have swindled grandpap out of his homestead. Lum points out the creek that makes the boundary between grandpap, and the old Dillard place.
He continues to drop hints that the Dillard place has lain fallow for some years, and with a rested land, it’s actually in better shape to be more productive than grandpap’s tired out old farm. And it could be had for cheap. Just buy it for the taxes owed on it’s just a shame to let BJ Webster take control of the valuable mineral spring.
Abner agrees, to a point. The Dillard place is better, but how can grandpap afford to buy it? on top of that, he’ll still lose his valuable spring. When Lum tries to explain how the creek might just happen to change course, and maybe he and Abner could buy the place, conclusions are jumped to, and the stage is set for a host of future splits and disloyalties to come.
