The Conshohocken Recorder, November 3, 1893

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"Ilome. Sweat Huron."
i nil the battle, .re loal >M] nrr won.
The IMI wont ipnlten, thv aryuiiwDtdoOB,
V. hick, which la the beal Ian* under the-nunr
The question is pondered i>> >••» «"^ me
A- ODI
• i i ityrae.
"Oh, UM very beat land."aavi *• German, "I
miner
And hi* «*<art lieata quirk and Ida molat eyes
thine
As IK- loudly ring* "™" "'"«''' '"" liliine."
But the Pranohman lew. M Hie Herman's
Dratiw,
While a tribute 10 Frnneeyon hear him raise
in I he fervent .train. of tho "Marhcilliilae."
At tJie Kri-ni ■hinaii'M linnet Ing the Bootohmaii
cries.
"What land no bonus banenth the ski'"*
■ land where the (mat sir Walter lies?"
■ roloe i- hei rd to dcolnre,
"Were my fellow ereatnrei but trie, and fair
IIK > VI dote to a man an the rttuatao bear."
Tho Irishman anawean, with a scornful smile.
"(io over the nnlvera. nUleby tulle.
Arid you'll lind no land like the Emerald Isle.'
The Englishman comments In nccenta bland,
'Tui thTnUng there's only nno civilized land.
Ami Britain"! i<s name, yon must understand."
The Yankee, risinc. with deep emotion
K ■ laimt, "I'm to nlj set In the notion
Jdy oaglo'a the stoic of the land or the ocean!"
So after the bottl-s are lost and won,
The lost word ■oaken, the argument done.
Which, whicli is the beat land under the mat
The question is pondered by you and me
As our barks are sailing life's mystic sea.
And. on second-JiinkiiiK. we all agrcel
We are not divided, savin*- In name;
In essence each-choice is really the same-
It sprint's from a common. Ineffable flame.
Whatever oar i-ace. wherever we roam.
The spot that Hi dearest to each is home.
The tonal drank dcc|H-st is"Ilume.sweet home.
— IJnmdon llauner.
HID 11
Conl'r.itrtl from laxt week.
A bright liMtic Hush crossed bar pale
cli-.'k as an instinctive ileniaJ rose'to her
lips. Farther than that the falsehood
•couldinotwma; her bead sunk between
her bauds,and t'ie poor girl, weak and
cold and Starving, as I :vft»rward 'knew,
Bobbed -violently.
Little byriittle I learned her «afl -rtory.
ilt need not be repeated here; it lacks,
alas, the Charm of novelty, years of
filill deeiiei.iuir poverty, and yesterday,
when Mrn.iyiiidani mid I were grum-bling
at our ley of cold mutton this poor
child and .her sii> mother passed the
lougicold -day without food or fire,-even
the warm-clothes and bedding, which
this money traa to have redeemed from
the pawnbroker's, denied ta tlu-ir shiv-ering
limbs.
I put on.my hat and stepped over to
Bullion's to gel change tax the half
eagle. The<;lerk threw it carelessly on
a balance,, and had already handed me
the change, when bo saw that the deli-cute.
arm after vibrating a littlo did not
decline with the weight. He took it up
and handed t to the head of the firm,
sod after a short consultation between
theni waa asked Into the inner office.
A chemical teal soon proved the worth-less
charactei of the coin. Bullion asked
me if I knew where I bad received it.
'•Certainly:'
"I bare seen two or three of Qate pre-cisely
like it. The counterfeit is a
dextrous one, and WO Dave in vain tried
.Nil. If you can assist us
iii t! is i: will I- a great service to the
community.''
1 took op the deceptive coin aud sertt-tiuiied.
it-curiously. The workmanship
wai perfect; the .oughtat once" <
across my mind, too perfect; where was
the knife mirk 1 myself had made? I
could not be deceived—tiie coin had
■ nJy been changed. And this was
the«ud uf.all my fine sentiment about
the interesting young girl!
It a few words 1 communicated the
circumstances conneoted with it t<- Mr.
Bullion, who jumped at once to the ©an-clusion.
"I [thought so," said he, "I thought
eol I knew t.U it some fresh and unsus-pected
parties must be made use of IE
this business. The old ha'ids we kuow
too well," he added with a chuckle.
It was soon agreed between us that
the girl sbonld be detained and no time
lost in extracting from her a confession
as to the persons whose tool she undoubt-edly
was. We accordingly repaired to-gether
to my office, where wie found her
patiently waiting. In answer to my
questions she repeated her story with
much apparent frankness, until I asked
the name of the person to whom she had
offered the coin. After some hesitation
■he named a very respectable pawn
broker in C street, to whom, as well
as to the police office, a messenger was
immediately dispatched.
Mr. Forceps soon came, and we re-ceived
him in another apartment His
answers to the inquiries we made eom
pletely confirmed our suspicions. Such
a coin as we showed him (the counter-feit)
had been offered to him on the pre-vious
Saturday night by a young wom-an,
and on being confronted with our
prisoner—for such we now considered
her—he at once recognized her as the
aame. Her own frightened, pallid face
would have satisfied us of the fact
Half rising, as if to speak, she caught
sight of a police officer just entering the
door, and she fainted.
I went home that night ill pleased
with my day's work. That the girl was
guilty seemed but too clear. But 1
could not believe that she was anything
more than an instrument, and my ex-perience
in criminal law, alight as it
wa». taught me how slender the chances
were or arresting tne gunry pm,.
lbul we obtained ■ oonfession before
she tainted something might have been
done, but now the matter had gone into
the bands of ii>-- police Bucb shrewd
rascals as they evidently were would
pretty surely §et wind of it in time to
escape.
"And so the whole upehot of the mat-ter,"
said 1, to myself, "will be the ruin
of the young woman and an article In
tomorrow's paper, whicli. for theeffecl
it will have, might as well lie Inserted
under the head "Personal" and read
thus:
"If the gentlemetl who have been in
the habit-of employing ft young person
in faded mourning to disseminate falla-cious
hah' eagles in this community do
not find it convenient to remove their
business for the present to some other
place they will incur the danger of being
involved in the unfortunate disaster
which lias befallen her."
"And this, Mr. Leguleius Quidam." 1
concluded, "is the great service to the
community which you and Mrs. Cjuidaia
have rendered 1"
An officer had called in the afternoon
to tell me that the prisoner's residence
had been found and searched, but that
no further discoveries had been made
This, however, enabled me to find ' the
unfortunate mother and provide some
scanty comforts for her in her terrible
affliction.
Imdoiug this 1 felt that i was but [per-forming
a duty. Society, 1 reasoned
with myself, finds it needful for its -own
protection to take the guilty daughter
and shut her up in jail, but the daughter
is the innocent mother's only support,
-ergo society must take that daughter's
place. And as 1 felt that society in the
abstract might lie somewhat remiss in
the performance of its doty 1 ordered
some fuel and groceries and went home,
.feeling myself to be an embodiment of
the whole social economy.
CHAPTER IE.
(The course of retributive justice as
administered here on earth has itnore
dill"--reni paces than Rosalind has attrib-uted
to time, but "those with whom it
lags withal" are not often the poor and
friendless. A few days only elapsed
before I was summoned as a witness to
attend the trial of Alice Sumner. in
the meantime both Mr. Bullion -and
myself made great but fruitless efforts
to obtain a further insight into the true
faots of the case.
Hie prisoner herself made no •confes-sion,
but constantly asserted her [inno-cence,
to the great discomfitureof ithe
broker and the unutterable perplexity
of myself. I sought in vain for a >flaw
in the chain of evidence against her or
a efcance to establish her innocence -by
other facts. Even the general testimony
of good character—the last frail reed on
which she leaned—seemed .toibend be-neath
her. She and lua- mother had bnt
lately come to the city, and to all.our In-quiries
as to their l\ rmer home and
friends we received only courteous but
evasive answers. It was evident that
some dark cloud of sorrow, if not of
crime, hung over their past history, and
this, .while it did not diminish tire in-terest
I felt in her, sadly weakened my
confidence in her defense.
It was the day before the trial, and I
sat in my office musing painfully on the
dark feature of the case, when ft stranger
entered. The first glance assured me
that lie was one of a class of clients with
which must of OUT city lawyers are fa-miliar.
A seedy, decrepit old man
humble yet querulous, dejected and yet
■visionary, bearing about a tattored and
worn collection of papers and pitifully
urging bis tale of wrong and suffering,
from which the patient listener gleans
at the .-aim lime a belief that the sad
lie is true and a melancholy conviction
that knavery has so cunningly hidden
or time so long obliterated the evidences
of the wrong that no court save that of
taleOmniscient can ever set it right.
I turned from the man more pettishly
than I should have done but for the sub-ject
that engrossed my thoughts. The
poor old man's spirits-were too much
broker, to take offense at my rudeness.
Beseechingly he added:
"I did not mean to give yon trouble
fur nothing, sir. 1 have but little to
offer you now, but I will pay you liber-ally
when 1 gain my case. You sbalj
have—yon see 1 mean to be generous-let
me see—1 cannot recover less than
twenty thousand dollars—it may be thir-ty,
or even forty—and you shall have a
quarter .of it all. Think of that, sir!
Ten thousand dollars for one easel"
And my client threw himself back in
his chair, feeling for the thousandth
time, poor fellow, that his troubles were
almost over and the phantom in pur-suit
of which lus life had been wasted
at least within bis grasp. But I had
had many such clients before, and when
, was very young at the bar bad been
lazzled more than once in the same way.
"How much can yon afford me ns a
retainer?"
"Now?" He seemed to be engaged in
in abstruse calculation as if over the
resources of a nation. "Ten thousand
lollars when the case is finished, say six
months or a year henco. Suppose we say
ive dollars, sir, on account."
There was something so painfully eager
ai the look that accompanied these words
that I snsmressed the smile which bad
been prompted by the pathos in his offer
tnd signified my acceptance. My client
irew from his pocket a lank purse, and
from the purse a solitary coin. Poor
Sreamer, be was paying his all for this
me more ticket in the lottery!
I bad opened rny lips to bid him leave
:ay eye fell on It.
glance, and I jumped from my si al as If
ilectritted by the little piece of gold.
"Where did yon get this money, sir?"
A transienl gleam of former fire
.11 the old man's i ye,
"I do not si e, sir. what that has to ilo
with ni' case."
"By heavens!" 1 shouted, collaring the
Did man and fairly lifting him out of
:iis seat, "if you do not tell me this ii
itant"
Just at this moment my office door
>pened to admit my learned and eloquent
friend Flourish. What that eminent
BOUnsel thought Of the ssfne Id
:are to guess. The personal appea:
if my client was not suggestive of any
temptation to a. felonious assault, nor
did his manner indicate any provocation
which could have called for chastise-ment;
and these two suppositions being
impossible, Mr. Flourish stared with tin-disguised
amazement at my unprofes-sional
conduct. His presence brought
me to myself, and with many apologies
I explained that this coin, which, as n;y
hearers would notice, was peculiarly
marked, had formerly been in my pos-session,
and that I was anxious, for par-ticular
reasons, to trace its subsequent
history.
The old man hesitated and stammered
and cast so many side glances at the
door that I begun to think we had fallen
upon one of the chief conspirators. Here
Mr. Flourish cume to my assistance
with his blandest smile and most mel-lifluous
tone, and iu five minutes had
drawn from my client all that he knew
about it. Assuring myself that he would
attend and testify to the same facts on
the following day I dismissed him, and
then rapidly recounted to Flourish the
facts of the case. The hard old lawyer
listened complacently, and when I had
finished dryly expressed a» opinion that
the young wowau should be acquitted.
iliil not Know ' i a i.
there. E I h she km
kindly, b id been thi
in- of placing her there,
I i igerly around the court-room.
On a front bench sat Mr. For-
ITobc coulinuiil mil irak.}
"fiy heavens'." / nhuutol, collaring the
old num.
I had conceived a hope while telling
the story of interesting Mr. Flourish
sufficiently in the case to induce him to
undertake the management of the de-fense.
For that task I felt myself dis-qualified
by other causes beside my want
of experience in criminal law. i was
liable to be called as a witness for the
prosecution and was a most Important
one for the defense, and above all I felt
that my own personal sympathies were
too strongly excited for the prisoner to
manage the affair with requisite cool-ness
and skill. Flourish, however, who
saw in the case nothing but a very com-monplace
incident of criminal prs
was not easily to be persuaded. The
sensibilities of an elderly lawyer in
large practice lie very far down and are
covered by a thick rind of worldly wis-dom.
"Consider, my dear sir," said he.
"how many cases of this kind are oc-curring
every day, and how precious
my time is to me. Ton my word, my
clients would lw in a pretty mess if 1
spent my time on petty affairs like this."
"Petty affair to yon, Mr. Flourish, 1
know, bat not to that young girl, the
fate of whose whole life here, and per-haps
hereafter, hangs on that trial. One
hour of snch assistance as yours may
save her."
"Really, Quidam"
"If snch a fee as I could offer out of
my own pocket would tempt you"
"It would tempt me, sir, if you offered
it It would tempt me to kick you out
of your own office, and then go home,
feeling that 1 had broken friendship
with the softest hearted, simplest headed
fool at the bar. Why, man, yon would
turn the whole fraternity into a gang of
knights errant, roaming up and down
Wall street seeking to 'set this crooked
world straight again."
"And so they ought to be, Mr. Flour-ish."
"Hum! I can't say I'm ready to give
an opinion on that matter. But the girl,
1 see, is fairly on my hands. I'll just
step down and tell my young men to put
one or two things off till next day and
come back to go over the case again with
you."
CHAPTER IV.
I was busy with the police authorities
that evening and had no time to com-municate
with Alice, but the next morn-ing
when I saw her brought into court,
looking so broken hearted and helpless,
I blamed myself for having left her thus
to drink the cup of bitterness to the very
dregs. In a few whispered words I bade
her be of good cheer, but 6he scarcely
seemed to heed me at all, so oppressed
was she by the sight of the crowd and
the keen sense of her forlorn condition.
S*ve her poor mother, who had risen
from a "sick bed to accompany her, she
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