The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-08-24
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1 3o,UUU, Cudrlle ana L dSie0u tudC Tue
time had co me for him to write his
long-dreamed-of novel.
! In accordance with this decision our
desire for wider acquaintance with
certain "colored gentleman" led us,
the following June, to the little town
of Delvoir, in the southern part of Del
aware. We chose this place because,
while not too far south, it still abound
ed in negroes, in all stages of natural
and uncultivated picturesqueness.
Il don't reckon you'll find any
empty houses right now" observed
our host of the hotel, doubtfully, in
answer to our queries; ''but mebbe
Their mought be one or two, Annie"
as his wife passed through the hall,
''wher's Their any empty houses att"
| II expect that brick house of Mike
Boylan's is to let she replied; and
turning to us, she added: "Boylan
keeps little store up yon street.
He'll show you the house-it's a right
nice place.
! It was thus we CHANGED to meet
Michael Boylan-a sour, scowling,
avaricious, hitherto-unheard-o type of
Hibenianism, waiting, rich and ripe,
for the pencil of the cartoonist.
Hes a perfectly horrible old man."
I said to Charlie, an hour. later, on
my return from visit to old Boylan;
"but the house suits us, and it's the
only one we can get, anyway. We
needn't have anything to do with him,
Of course" Alas! I knew not, then,
Michael Boylan!
! The local rent laws, we found, were
peculiar. Houses were let, on the first
of each October, for the year begin
ming on the first of January following.
Tenants were required to sign, at that
time, a contract which absolutely
bound them, with all their belongings,
to pay the years rent, whether they
used the house or not. But what
cared we for rent laws? We were
young and happy, and had high, I'M
shaken hopes, to say nothing of the
$4,000 in the bank. We signed a con-
tract, taking the house for the remain
der of the year.
The summer slipped happily away
Charlie made rapid progress with the
book, and during the last Of Septem-
Der we began to consider the details
of our next move. In all this time we
had seen little of our landlord Charlie
mad paid the rent promptly on the
first of each month"; stopping for the
purpose at the little store while out
for the morning walk he always took.
Once or twice, however, had caught,
from the kitchen window, the CLEAN
of white teeth and the flash of stormy
eyes above the green thorn hedge at
the end of the back yard. wants t.
see how tn tinants kapes tn yar-rd,"
l would soliloquize, amusedly.
| While we We're deeply absorbed in
plans for speedy fitting, I heard,
one morning, heavy footsteps upon the
porch and fumbling at the dining
room door. I opened it, and there
stood Old ,Boylan, more lowering and
forbidding than ever.
'Th' rint was due yistiddy," he
growled Indignantly, shaking his head
and stepping back as if tried beyond
endurance.
"Oh, was it?" / responded, weakly.
In the appalling consciousness that
was being dunned for the rent, my
mind had become a blank to all else.
struggled nightly for composure
and intelligence. "'Mr. Longworth
will attend to it at once. He has prob
ably forgotten all about it," I said
with bolstered dignity.
He hesitated, putting out his breath
in impatient jerks. Reconstruction
in this matter was plainly abhorrent
to him. But stood firm, and at last,
with an angry "Wull," he turned re-
luctantly away.
/ I fled to Charlie. Dear boy" I
complained, "you forgot to pay the
rent and that dreadful old man has
just bene here after it! YOU can't
think how cross he looked! Write a
check for the money and I'll go down
and pay him.
When I placed in his outstretched
hands the precious check for $12 his
face was study of ecstasy!
A few days later man called one
afternoon and asked to- see Charlie
on business. II am the legal advis-
err he explained, pompously, ;"of your
landlord, Mr.. Michael Boylan. He is
much surprised and panied at your
sudden decision to leave town You
OF course acquainted yourself" he
continued, smoothly, with the local
rent laws, when you came here to re:
side; and are, therefore, aware that
tenants are required to give to land.
lords, on the LIST of October, written
notice by means of third person of
their intention to vacate his property
on the LIST of January following. Fail.
ure to do this is tacit agreement to
| continue in possession of the property
The position of my client is therefore
this: You have given him no such: no.
LITIGATION, he has relied on your ten.
ancy of his house and has made no
| effort to let tito other parties. Now
II when 6eSira HI ffonanfc a 20 cco,;oo -