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Colonel Pennington may have the lands sold to satisfy a deficiency judgment against us, but while those life-leases from the former owner are in force, my father's proteges cannot be dispossessed. After they are dead, of course, Pennington may take the farms and be damned to him." Sinclair stared in frank amazement at his youthful superior.
He marvelled what people could have been thinking about in the past to invent such precarious tenures as these; still more, what could have induced his ancestors at Hintock, and other village people, to exchange their old copyholds for life-leases.
"No, your father refused to include them. He said he would take a chance on the financial future of himself and his boy, but not on his helpless dependents." "Good old John Cardigan! Well, Sinclair, I'll not take a chance on them either; so to-morrow morning you will instruct our attorney to draw up formal life-leases on those farms, and to make certain they are absolutely unassailable.
Play safe, Sinclair, and include yourself in one of those life-leases." "My dear boy " "Nonsense! United we stand, divided we fall, Sinclair; and let there be no moaning of the bar when a Cardigan puts out to sea." Smiling, he rose from his desk, patted the bewildered Sinclair on the latter's grizzled head, and then reached for his hat.
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