at the expiration of one year,with the further privilege of two years longer at the expiration of three years at the same rate per annum as hereinafter named”.It is true that in pursuance of the aforesaid contract Valley Lodge 0.16 Knights of Pythias dia occupy said fall for 2 year from Sov.ist 1894,and at the expira- tion of said first year Gid continues tor a second year in the same use and occupancy that they had enjoyed the precedin, year. dowever, three months previous to the expiration of the second yeay, they notified your respondents that they intended vacating said premises at the expiration of thatyear,wnich they did,contrary to the protests of your respondents. Your respondents aver and charge that, by staying in the prem ises after the first year,said complainants thereby elected to hold and ai hold the premises for two additional years under the contract and that, they were rot tenants from year to year or at. will,or by sufferance,as claimed in the bill.iot only is thi= the proper and legal construction of the contract to be gathereé from reading it as a whole,but it is tie construction that was placed on said contract by all the parties thereto until complainants had been in the use and enjoyment of the premises in question for many months after the first year of renting,and until the organ- ization kmown as Staunton Lodne 110.46 Independent Order of Odd Fellows had built a large hall on east Main or Jeverly street in the City of Staunton. Your respondents are advised, believe and charge that many of the versons composing, the orginization known as Valley Lodge Ho.18 Knights of Pythias also belons to said Staunton Lodge No.4f 1.0.0.F,.which last named organization has recently completed a large building on cast Main or Beverly St.. in the City of Staunton,Va..which they have had much trouble in renting.It was in this state of facts that tne members of the Knights of Pythias,who were Oda Fellows,or at least some or them, conceived the idea of coming to the rescue of the Odd Fellows in their efforts to rent their building on east Main or Beverly St. by takinr; the position with Oneida Tribe No.6 Independent Order of Red Men that they, the Pythians,were not in possession of the