Complex sentence: The two would eventually share a law office together, and Forquer aided Ford in his early years as a lawyer and judge, but he took a brief time away from the law to become a spy against Black Hawk shortly before the Black Hawk War in 1832.
Split into simpler sentences: The two would eventually share a law office together, and Forquer aided Ford in his early years as a lawyer and judge. But, he took a brief time away from the law to become a spy against Black Hawk shortly before the Black Hawk War in 1832.