had to take it with a guarantied right of way across this one. There
was no other outlet."

"It was not a guarantee against my ownership," doggedly replied Mr.
Bolton.

"Pardon me for saying that in this you are in error," returned the
other. "Originally both farms were in one; that was subsequently
sold with a right of way across this."

"There is no such concession in the deed I hold," said Bolton.

"If you will take the trouble to make an examination in the clerk's
office in the county court, you'll find it to be as I state."

"I don't care any thing about how it was originally," returned
Bolton, with the headiness of passionate men when excited. "I look
only to how it is now. This is my farm; I bought it with no such
concessions, and will not yield it unless by compulsion. I wouldn't
be the owner of a piece of land that another man had the right to
enter."

"That little strip of ground," said Mr. Dix, "which is of but
trifling value, might be fenced off as a road. This would take away
all necessity for entering your ground."

"What!" said Bolton, indignantly; "vacate the property I have bought
and paid for? I am not quite so generous as that. If Mr. Halpin must
have a right of way, let him obtain his right by purchase. I'll sell
him a strip from off the south side of my farm, wide enough for a