The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-26

serung one unusual clause JnaJ looked
inOffensive.
1t came by post, and Walter read the
letter, and told his father whom it was
from.
What does the fellow say?- grunted
Colonel Clifford.
"He saws: we are doing very well
here, but Hope says a bailiff can now
carry out our system; and he is evident
ly sweet on his native place, and thinks
the proposed rent is fair, and even mod
crate. As for me, my life used to be so
bustling that | require change now
and then; so | will be your tenant. Hope
says | am TO pay the expenses of the
lease, 50 / have requested ArTowsmith
q Cox to draw it. / have no experience
In leases. They have drawn hundreds.
/ told them TO make it fair. If they
have not, send it back with objections ~
"Ohl OIL" said Colonel Clifford. HE
draws the lease, does her Then look at
it with microscope"
Walter laughed.
Il should not like TO encounter him
on his own ground. But here he is a
fish out of water; he must be. However,
/ will pass my eye over it. Where the
farmer generally Overreaches us, if he
draws the lease. Is in the clauses that
protect him on leaving. He gets part
possession for months without paying
rent, and he hampers and fleeces the in
coming tenant, so that you lose a years
rent or have to buy him out. Now, let
me see, that will be at the end of the
document-NO;it is exceedingly fair,
this one"
SHOW it to our man of business, and
let him study every line. Set an attor-
ney to catch an attorney"
"Of course / shall submit it to our
solicitor" said Walter.
This was done, and the experienced
practitioner read it very carefully. He
pronounced it unusually equitable for a
farmers lease.
However" said he, I'VE might sug-
gest that he does all the repairs and
draining. and that you find the materials;
and also that he insures all the farm
buildings. But you can hardly stand
out for the insurance if he objects.
There's no harm trying. STAY here is
one clause that is unusual; the tenanti is
TO have the right to bore for water, or
to penetrate the surface of the soil, and
take out gravel or chalk or minerals, If
any. / don't like that clause. He might
quarry, and cut the farm in pieces. All,
there's prOviso, that any damage to
the surface or the agricultural value
shall be fully compensated, the amount
of such injury TO be settled by the land
lords galuer or surveyor. Oh, come, if
you can charge your own price, that
| can't kill you"
In short, the draft was approved, sub
| ject to certain corrections. These were
accepted. The lease was engrossed in
| duplicate, and in due course signed and
delivered. The old tenant left, abusing
the Cliffords, and saying that 1T was un-
| fair to bring in stranger, for he would
| have given all the money,
BARLEY took possession.
Walter welcomed Hope very warmly
and often came to see him. He took 2
great interest in Hopes theories oil
| farming. and often came TO the farm
for lessons. But that interest was very
much increased by the opportunities it
| gave him of seeing and talking to sweet
| Mary BARLEY. Not that he was for
ward or indiscreet. She was not yet
sixteen, and he tried to remember she
was child.
Unfortunately for that theory she
| looked ripe woman, and this very
manly. Whenever Walter was near she
had new timidity, new bushes, fewer
| gushes, less impetuOSity, more reserve.
| Sweet innocent! She was set by Nature
to catch the man by the sureSt way,
| though she had no such design.
Hope had hardly started the farm
when BARLEY sent him off TO Belgium
to study coal mines.