little while ago, closing up the gate that opens from your farm into
Mr. Halpin's."

"Well!" Mr. Bolton's brows contracted heavily.

"Are you aware that his farm has the right of way through yours?"

"No, sir."

"Such, however, let me assure you, is the case. Mr. Halpin has no
other avenue to the public road."

"That's his misfortune; but it gives him no license to trespass on
my property."

"It is not a trespass, Mr. Bolton. He only uses a right purchased
when he bought his farm, and one that he can and will sustain in the
courts against you."

"Let him go to court, then. I bought this farm for my own private
use, not as a highway; no such qualification is embraced in the
deed. The land is mine, and no one shall trespass upon it."

"But, Mr. Bolton," calmly replied the other, "in purchasing, you
secured an outlet to the public road."

"Certainly I did; but not through your farm, nor that of any one
else."

"Halpin was not so fortunate," said Mr. Dix. "In buying his farm, he