Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-04-08
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You said you would tell me all about the
lawyer who got you TO deed him your prop
err, aud ts,en sold it for half its value and
kept the money. 7oo iong d story, and makes
you SICK 10 think nfif, suppose so; il IS
apt 10 make one sick when one sees what d
TOOL he has made Of himself Yon told me
yon would give me full accounted the whole
matter, how you took the young man BY the
hand when he came to the place, destitute
butcher son, from an interior part of the
State how Won gave him business and in
terested your friends in his behalf; how,
without friends and without means, he final
" acquired position and q good paying and
lucrative business, principally through the
early assistance you rendered him Stop I,
What shall stop for2 Ill not stop, If you
won tell me the story, III tell it to you
Needn em5eilish III 1t doesn't need any,
establishment; simple statement is bad
enough, the Lord knows. Let you alone to
night That's what you say every night -
LII not let you alone-tnrn over here. and
tell me the story, or i III worry you until
morning You iconder If these things sciH
follow you into the merit scortdT What have
YOU to do with the affairs of the next world,
would like to know You had better at
tend to the affairs of this, and let the other
world take care ofitself If YOU had paid
more attention to what was going on here,
and kept your eyes open, you would not have
attracted such set of knaves about you. to
eat out your substance, and embitter your
better nature Did not expect your conf
Dental la,oyer, Dho oas bound to you By the
strong tie of gratitude could prore PREACHER
Gus Well you must be soft. You put
fha dc Of lop,
| in the full confidence that he wouldn't keep
it himsclfl Said he ,canted to keep 1t apay
| from embarrassmentss In the name of all
that is romantic, has he not done so !? What
| more could you ask? Has he not done as he
agreed2 And now you are railing out
against him. You have the least charity OF
any person ever heard talk. He told you,
as friend and adviser to deed him your
property. You did so, and he sold it for
half its value and put the money in his own
pocket If you can show me how, by any
process, hecould have kept it farther away
from embarrassment would like you to
point itout. Getting late and you dan tcant
to discuss the subject any mores Shouldn't
think you would The contemplation of the
subject is not apt to inspire the most pleas
ant emotions Think he means to do rigAts
! Why, of course he does; he never intended
to do anything but what was right. Think
everybody has shared you, everybody is try
| ing to crash you, and they are all a set OF
unmercJut rascalss The dear, good man,
how tenderly he feels for you What are
you twisting and turning for? Why don't
you lie still, no one will hurt you. A uisio,, ?
A what? You see a la,ryer and a friend
the Lawyer has the friend By the throat, and
piU surely Kill him 7? Get up and strike a
light; you are crazy, and I'll not stay in the
room with you. The foul ,fend IS loose; he
comes, lie comes help, help, he is after you
Great heavens, man, you are crazy. The
foul fend can't harm you its nothing but
a vision. 1t is not lawyer Buff Rep