Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-05-24
CHAPTER III.

I lost no time in acting on Mr.. Har-
lows Instructions. BY the same post
l wrote TO Messrs. Sorrel & Seedytoe,
asking for an abstract of title, and TO
Mr.. Wilson inquiring whether he would
be satisfied with our assurance that it
was good--in the event Of our finding it
good-which was almost a matter Of
course.
Mr.. Wilson's reply was prompt and
polite. If he were concerned for him
self alone he should be quite willing to
accept u warranty of the title, but as
he was acting for clients, who were
also trustees, it would not be right for
him to delegate his responsibility to
another, and he feared that he must
ask US to let him peruse the abstract.
He also mentioned incidentally that he
should shortly have occasion to run up
to town, when he would do himself the
pleasure of calling upon us.
This was quite correct. 1t was ex-
actly the answer / should have made
myself, and showed that Mr.. Wilson
knew his business. In the course of
tIe following week I received the alb
stract from Sorrel & Seedytoe, and
after Mr.. Harlow and myself had eX-
amined the document and found il in
ciuSAy VIC III "slutd IL W NlISOH IOE
his perusal, and, as we supposed, his
approval. By return of post the alb
stract came back, accompanied by a
letter from our correspondent, cour-
teously calling our attention to a flaw
in the title, which, he presumed, had
escaped our notice.
1t had, indeed, and vexed we were
that a country solicitor had caught us
mapping.
This fellow is evidently a lawyer.
He knows what he is about" observed
Mr.. Harlow. 1--WE must mind our P's
and Q's."
After a somewhat tedious CORES pond
me with the vendors solicitors, the
missing link was supplied, and the
business went on; yet so slowly withal
that / thought 1t well to ask Mr.. VIII
son to make his contemplated visit at
his earliest convenience. in order that
we might settle the matter out of hand.
He assented without demur, and came
within a week. / had pictured him to
myself really don't know why-as a
smart, dapper little country lawyer of
about my own age, badly dressed and
coarse hammered. But when the. office
boy announced MIR Wilson," there
walked into my office a tall, gaunt
gentleman, attired in solemn black,
with short gray hair. and a closely
sEaven face, massive Jaws and deeply
sunken dark eyes. Except for q red
spot on each cheek, his face was TN
wholesomely pale, and it bore traces of
deep suffering, either mental or ply
slcal- perhaps both. His bearing was
easy and saif-possessed. and before we
had been In conversation ten minutes l
had acknowledge to myself that Mr..
Wilson was one of the best bred mon
and acutest lawyers / had met for a
long while. AL
We talked business, naturally, and
Wilson mentioned incidentally that. as
he had been abroad several years for
the benefit Of his health, his name
was not in that years List" Also,
that the trust money which his clients
had agreed TO advance was lying i'll
some bank. Would 1t be in order, he
asked, IL the amount were RENTED in
the shape Of n crossed bank draft, to
the order Of the vendors solicitors, or
OF Mr.. Harlow? Fifteen thousand
pound was rather a large sum TO bring
up from Dorsetshire In banknotes, and
his clients did not like to run the risk.
/ referred this question to Mr.. Har-
low, who just then came In.
Certainly" was the answer. "A
bank draft Is just as good as cash. I
dare say Sorrel and Seedytoe would
rather have 1t than notes. 1 know i
shou'd."
The chief was so favorably impressed