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Good day . '' He shut the door on the disappointed crowd and turned to Jones . The battle was over . At five o'clock that day the transference of the property was made out and signed by Marcus Mulhausen in Mortimer Collins ' office , and the Glanafwyn lands became again the property of the Earl of Rochester -- `` for the sum of five thousand pounds received and herewith acknowledged , '' said the document . Needless to say no five thousand pounds passed hands . Collins , mystified , asked no questions in the presence of Mulhausen . When the latter had taken his departure , however , he turned to Jones .