The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-26
By ". B. MAXWELL, Author of ~Ths Guarded Flame" The nagged Messengers"
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something for every one to look at. Now I'll tell you what I mean to do with those ten Hill Rise houses--I mean to fin them with tenants again." He was like a young and uptried Chancellor of the Exchequer, making a first budget speech. As he went on with more and more eagerness, he dropped the We and You, and it be- came all L--"Ill pull down the back garden walls and put iron railinep, so that people can look right into the tennis ground as if 1t was their own park"
 You'd never get the old tenantS to come back
 T shan't try. I'll get new tenants,N The. tradesmen- towns ns-people--not the old gang. Look here. I'm going to give those houses a. lick of paint and brush up, and I'm going to let them to sensible people at forty-five pounds a year. Across the road the l.. and. s. will be putting up their smart little handboxes and letting them at fifty pounds, and I shall say: Very good I don't pretend our houses are as smart and up-to date, but they're better built, they've three times the accommoda- tion, and they're i've pounds less-now if you've large family and aren't a fool, you'll know which to choose" Tt sounds all right to talk about FIt is right. It's solid--not gas. Look here. In six months I'll let every one of these ten houses, and thatll be four hundred and fifty year coming in. I have let four already--condition- ally on the starting of my club. There you are--look at the letters. Brown my Guv'nor's butcher--is taking one. And there's Swan--and Waygood-and old Martin the saddler You know lot of this ought to have been in your scheme from the very first. To popu. i .1A stroy it. That ought to have been your line from the first.
 Please look at your maps Another virtue in my tennis club! It creates frontages. We can guarantee not to build on it for fifteen years. Well, peo- pie will build all around it for us. I have firm offers for four plots already subject to club and guarantee-at higher rate than we've been near yet -one hundred and fifty per acre. There you are. Catch hold, Dowling--see for yourself. Now look at the map above the tennis ground. See how neatly L. and s. road works in. We can just continue 1t bit by Dit. People like building next to established neighbors--it's an easier job any day to increase a neighborhood than to make one. Plots up there will go like hot cakes--we'u just carry on the Company's plan for them A. gross income of seven hundred and fifty--coming in regularly--to pay all charges for interest and keep you go- ing comfortably. Your troubles would be over You'd be your own master able to wait for what the future was bringing. You'll soon pay off these petty little mortgages-and you'll see l you money again--every penny of H. This is what we shall do with that open space in the end We snail la l go up in value. They'll have to buy 1t I in the end--for a municipal recreation ground We'll get twenty thousand for | our tennis club-before we've done with 1t. Now. am I right. or am l wrong?"
 .By God. he's right" said crunden loudly
 .I-really begin to think he is."
 If I had tue five thousand" said | crunde1a energetically. .I.d say do it, l sir--yes; by God. try and do it." His face had flushed, his eyes had l brighteneed; he tossed the letters up- l on the table. got up, and forgetting his l lame leg, walked around the room briskly until twinge of pain stopped him. ..-..ss.. .. ..-...- -.. I .Then this" said Jack, rearranging This papers, "is now what we have to consider. Can we possibly bite any ones ear for five thousand pounds as loan on our personal credit? It ] ought to Be possible" and he looked l hard at MT. Bowling. If anyhow we
 can make it possible, am sure we--" ] May I interrupt now?'
 l And Mir Bowling with much feel ing explained his own financial posi- ton; he was the husband of wo-
 man or means, but he had practically
 no means himself beyond his profess sional income. At this moment he pos- | sessed, of his very own money, about,
 and, unhappily. not more than. one thousand pounds. That he freely of | feree T could not, MT. Vincent. at tempt to-ah, in your odd phrase--in- deed it would not be right for me to