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Therefore arrangements were carefully adjusted to detain that important person, in the event of his arriving; and a note, in the good attorney's hand, inviting him to remain at the Lodge till his return, and particularly requesting that 'he would kindly abstain from mentioning to anyone, during his absence, any matter he might intend to communicate to him in his professional capacity or otherwise.
"Will you?" says Gus; "that's a trump!" and he seized Smithers's hand, and squeezed it so that the tears came into the attorney's eyes. "Generous fellow!" said I; "lend me money, when you know what a situation I am in, and not able to pay!" "Ay, my good sir, there's the rub!" says Mr. Smithers. "I said I would have lent the money; and so to the acknowledged heir of Mrs.
We discussed the matter at length, however, and Gottlieb pointed out very wisely that I was running a great risk in distributing broadcast cards upon which appeared the unauthorized name of Haight & Foster, as well as in conducting an office under my own name, when in fact I was but an attorney's clerk downtown.
Back to my land and my water that I'm going to hold in trust for them, the poor devils! Back where there won't be any poverty where ten acres of Inyo desert with Inyo water on it will mean a fortune to every poor family I plant in my desert." "Why?" demanded Homer Dunstan smiling. "Why?" Bob McGraw echoed the attorney's query. He gazed at Dunstan stupidly.
The clerk then proceeded in taking the information of Robinson, and had just finished it, when the doctor returned with the utmost joy in his countenance, and declared that he had sufficient evidence of the fact in his possession. He had, indeed, two or three letters from Miss Harris in answer to the attorney's frequent demands of money for secrecy, that fully explained the whole villany.
After his father passed away, the position of the boy's desk next to the empty desk of his father was a cause of constant depression to him. This was understood by the attorney for the company, Mr. Clarence Cary, who sought the head of Edward's department, with the result that Edward was transferred to Mr. Cary's department as the attorney's private stenographer.
The Hayesville Seminary had just celebrated the opening of its fifth fall term by adding an "art department"; a dozen young women were busy painting a variety of objects under the guidance, good as far as it went, of an eager lady graduate of Dr. Gowdy's Academy. "Why don't you get Miss Webb to show you?" asked the county attorney's daughter.
This occasioned some distress at this time, for the attorney's friend was departed; but when the justice heard this, he immediately offered himself as the other bondsman, and thus ended the affair. It was now past six o'clock, and none of the gentlemen had yet dined. They very readily, therefore, accepted the magistrate's invitation, and went all together to his house.
By a usual exercise of the courtesy of the Crown, all the brothers were made lords, and some twelve years before the date of our story George Carruthers, who had long since left the attorney's office at Aberdeen, became Lord George de Bruce Carruthers. How he lived no one knew.
"You are going to try to send me to jail?" gasped Dodge, clutching at the ledge of a bookcase to save himself from falling. "I am going to try to persuade the district attorney to let the matter drop," replied Griffin. "It will be the district attorney's decision that will govern the matter." "Then what are you doing fooling around here, governor?" screamed Bert hoarsely.
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