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So the poor old married shyster, who had only attested to show his blooming patriotism and encourage the others, suddenly found himself confronted with the awful prospect of having to defend his country personally, instead of by letter to the halfpenny press. Then the fat was fairly in the fire! The married martyr " "Come, come, old man! Not all of them!" said Colonel Kemp.
It was evident that Bud had no objection to this nor to anything else, for that matter. Of all the men in the room he seemed the least interested. I turned in my seat and touched the arm of my neighbor. "Who is that man who wants to go on with the case?" "Oh, that's Bill Cartwright, one of the cheap, shyster lawyers always hanging around here looking for a job. His boast is he never lost a suit.
"But who is this Elwell? I don't know the name." "Oh, he's a fellow I put into it gave him a hand up. I told you all about him at the time." "I daresay. I must have forgotten." Vainly she strained back among her memories. "But if you helped him, why does he make this return?" "Oh, probably some shyster lawyer got hold of him and talked him over. It's all rather technical and complicated.
Now, as every one knew such a thing to be ludicrously impossible, it was at once noised abroad in Canaan that Joe had helped to swindle Judge Pike out of a large sum of money it was notorious that the shyster could bamboozle court and jury with his tricks; and it was felt that Joe Louden was getting into very deep waters indeed.
It was passed round from one to another till it came to me, and I read: "Harry D. Bellairs, Attorney-at-Law; defended Clara Varden; twice nearly disbarred." "Well, that gets me!" observed Mr. Longhurst. "Who can have put up a shyster like that? Nobody with money, that's a sure thing. Suppose you tried a big bluff? I think I would, Pink. Well, ta-ta! Your partner, Mr. Dodd?
You'd best handle this personally. If that shyster tries to get in on this his neck won't be wuth the skin that covers it." "You still persist in trying to threaten me, I see." "No, Jim, this ain't a threat. If you want the witness part after I get through I'll accommodate you with plenty of 'em. But I cal'late we'd best talk it over private-like fust.
All felt that the coming legal contest would be a bitter one, and that Tad Sobber and the shyster lawyer who was aiding him would do all in their power to get possession of the fortune found on Treasure Isle. The girls were coming to the football game with Sam, and all said they trusted Brill would win the contest.
"My idea of a shyster is a down-at-the-heels, unshaved and generally disreputable-looking police-court lawyer preferably with a red nose who murders the English language and who makes his living by preying upon the ignorant and helpless." "Like Finklestein?" suggested Tutt. "Exactly!" agreed Miss Wiggin. "Like Finklestein." "He's one of the most honorable men I know!" protested Mr. Tutt.
Next we come to his Excellency the Prime Minister, a renegade American from New Hampshire, all jaw, vanity, bombast and ignorance, a lawyer of "shyster" calibre, a fraud by nature, a humble worshipper of the sceptre above him, a reptile never tired of sneering at the land of his birth or glorifying the ten-acre kingdom that has adopted him salary, $4,000 a year, vast consequence, and no perquisites.
Each of these confronted by the witnesses who testified against him, and allowed to cross-examine them to any extent he desired. The defense was managed by one of their crowd, the foul-tongued Tombs shyster, Pete Bradley, of whom I have before spoken.
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