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Crafts here seems willing to go bail for you although I understand he never saw you before to-day and I think we could get along all right, so if you're satisfied, I guess we'll call it a deal. There's one difficulty, though." "What's that, sir?" asked the boy. "I shall probably need to go to Florida as well, and I should like to have my assistant stay with me clear through."
'He would willingly, he said, 'receive bail, notwithstanding that the offence had been directly perpetrated, committed, and done against young Hazlewood of Hazlewood; but the young man had given himself a fictitious description, and was altogether that sort of person who should not be liberated, discharged, or let loose upon society; and therefore
At a later hour Steve presented himself in a body to the senior Atwood, with his letter from the Judge as credentials. "Bless my soul!" ejaculated that person, when he had read a few lines. His eyes dropped to the signature. "Oh the Judge!" he said, enlightened, and read on, chuckling. He wheeled his chair around. "Well, Mr. Thompson, what is it fine or bail?" he queried.
"Nonsense," I replied, "who would arrest you? No one has the right. You are out on bail: your bail answers for you till the 20th. Money talks, man; Englishmen always listen to money. It'll do you good with the public and the jury to come back from France to stand your trial. Do come," and I took him by the arm; but he would not move. To my astonishment he faced me and said: "And my sureties?"
STRAW BAIL. "Worthless bail, bail given by 'men of straw." This is surely no Americanism, and we have seen its origin very differently explained, namely, that men willing for a fee to become bail walked in the neighborhood of the courts with straws stuck in their shoes, though Mr. Bartlett's explanation is ingenious. SUNFISH. Mr.
"Unfortunately," the Commissioner continued, "the law of the State is curiously framed in such matters. If the man should die, as seems more than likely, your legal position, Sir Henry, would be most uncomfortable. Your arrest would be a necessity, and there is no law granting what I believe you call bail to a person directly or indirectly responsible for the death of another.
He himself then sprang forward, as if in pursuit of M'Carthy, exclaiming, "Hell and fury, why did yez keep between me and him I think he's hit; give me that dagger, and I'll go bail I'll make his body soon put six inches of it out of sight," and having uttered, these words, he rushed forward, as if in pursuit of their victim.
Some drops of this blood he emptied on to the ground, muttering invocations the while. Then he turned and looked at Cuitlahua as though in question, and Cuitlahua answered with a bitter laugh: 'Let him be baptized with the blood of the princess Otomie my niece, for she is bail for him.
But little time elapsed after these promises were made before he found himself in the hands of constables and magistrates, and was only saved from imprisonment by getting friends to go his bail for six and nine months. In order to secure them, he had to give an order in advance for his salary.
Pupil of Professor Louis Bail in New Haven, of Henry A. Loop in New York, later spending two years in study in Paris, Venice, and Rome. Mrs. Loop is essentially a portrait painter, but occasionally has painted figure pictures, such as "Baby Belle," "A Little Runaway," "A Bouquet for Mama," etc. Her portraits of Professors Low and Hadley of New Haven were much admired; those of Mrs.
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