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V 2 ' ^ ' i f l l admit I have no lease yet but don't put your building down.* Sunday morning, June 30th, Mr. Bracken and he came back and demanded that we go no further, and Mr. Bracken said he would see that we got ju stice, and would not be anything out. I was incensed at the whole condition, and Monday, July the f i r s t , I went and got legal advice, it being license day, and I could not go on without a license le g a lly . The attorney pointed to me the law on the question, but before anything, to go to Mr. Bracken and ask him what he would do, This I did, as kindly as I knew how, and his reply was, “Get o ff the ground, whatever arrange­ments you and Woodard make are a lrig h t, but Mr. Woodard wants that particular p lot, and he is going to have i t " . Therefore I wrote you, and th at's just why, although I did not t e ll you a ll - yesterday I told Mr. Bracken that we would tender him the rent through the bank, and he said "Why, I can't take it , we have to be careful of squatters", and I'm te llin g you that we have taken grave exceptions to being called squatters. This transaction was a perfectly le g a l one, and we fe e l it was not our fau lt. I f you had a bad man on your ground, to get the people's money and then make them trouble. I f Mr. Bracken had been the smart man he is supposed to be he should have investigated Mr. Thomas Oanova's former past l i f e and not have leased to such a man. I have been very sick this past three weeks, in bed ten days, and just as weak as a baby yet, and I am the support of Mr. Mink. I am not able to work from worry and I request that you as a kind gentleman shall protect me in this matter, as we haven't any money to buy a £lot of ground with, so therefore