*Deciding not to bandy about, Darien simply reiterates Harv's solution: "Lord, if there were an impartial umpire, a Queen's man or Frost Knight at harvest time, could you accept a flat half of the take of the apples, and drop all legal procedings? The laymen alone will free up much of your income, and everyone will profit from this agreement. Whether or not the Laird Raeburn or any subservients has taken any extra apples is not for anyone to say, but if the apples were divvied up equally, such...unfortunate... matters as these could be easily avoided in the future." Darien, sitting calmly, purposefully neglects to mention that Raebrn as good as already agreed, because by now he's pretty sure that would lead Lonsdale to decide that Raeburn had, in fact, been stealing apples.*
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