Bedford inquirer and chronicle. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1854-1857, 1857-08-21

ed at the door Of Mons Dipin, one Of the
most able advocates of Paris Tie entered,
and drawing from under his cpat large
package Of documents, laid them ON tho ta-
table.
Monsieur said he. Il am rich, but a
lawsuit, which is commenced against me,
may ruin me utterly. At my age, lost
fortune is not to be remade. The loss of
this suit, therefore, would involve Ihe'in the
most frightful misery, come to impiore
your aid. Here are the papers which ex-
plain my claims
The advocate listened attentively while
his unknown visitor thus briefly explained
his business. Then opening the Pile of
documents, be went through them with the
searching rapidity of his professional cye.--
They were at last laid upon the table.
The action which is commenced against
you for this property said he, is based
upon justice and right-legal and moral
The property belongs to your opponent.
But, unfortunately, in spite of the fhe
elaboration Of our code, law and justice do
not go together; aud here the law is on your
side. If, therefore you rest your case en-
tirely upon the law, and use without reserve
all its technicalilies and quibbles, and if tie
legal points in your favor are all stated
clearly and ably TO the court, yoh will in
cvitably gain your case
No man living, said the stranger can
do what you thus describe so ably as your
self. Might venture to hope that you
reduce your legal opinion 10 writing, and
thus render me invulnerable?'
The advocate reflected for minute or
two, aud then taking up again the docu-
ment, which, at the frst word Of the re-
quest, he had roughly pushed away, he said
he would do as the stranger wished. On
the morrow, at the same hour, the legal
opinion would be ready.
The client was punciual. The paper WIS
presented 20 him-accompanied with a de-
niand very abruptly made, for fee ofthree
thousand francs.
He stood mute with astonishmcnt
you are at liberty to keep your money,
said the lawyer, sand / am at liberty to
throw my written opinion into the fire.
Advancing to the chimney, apparently
for the purpose, he was stopped by the sis-
itor.
q will pay you The sum- be said, ebut |
must give you my written acceptance for
it.
'The money in gold,' said the advocate
sor you shall not have line
The client saw that it was inevitable
nd,taking his leave for u moments return
ed soon with the coin. He paid it-but in
revenge. after gaining his cause, he told the
story in every corner Of Paris. The journal
got hold of . Ii was soon as universal as
the name and fame of the great lawyer him
self. Laments were made by the editors,
over the graspIng advantage thus taken of a
client in his extremity, and even friends
expressed their regret to him for his be-
trayal of avarice. But he simply shrugged
his shoulders; and, as everything is forgot
ten at Paris, the matter soon passed out of
the public mind.
Ten years passed by, and few days since,
at a celebration of which the dignitaries of
the courts of law formed part, the process
sion was interrupted BY woman, who sud-
denly sprang from the crowd and sciz ed the
hands of Mons. Dupin the Procurer Gencr-
al.
'1t is he 1t is he' she exclaimed as
she burst into tears, and covered his hands
with kisses. sThis is my benefactor, my
friend, the angel by whose timely kindness
| was saved from ruin, and spared to cdu-
cate my children
Poor woman' said NJ Dupin, sshe has
lost her reason
But no she insisted ON expla lining to the
by-Standers that there was reason in her
tears andgratitude. She stated it brokenly. |
Ten years ago, after the death of her hus-
band, claim was put in by "a relative
fer tie properly upon which she had relied |
to support and educate her children. She |
resolved to defend her possession of that |
which she knew to be her own, and had az |
ready sold half her furniture to pay the |
commencement of the process, when one day
a stranger called upon her. He abruptly |
announced his business. lie told her that
the suit, for which she was already running
into expense, would be losing onc-that /
the law was against her, though Justice was
on her side--that she had better abandon
it, and save what she still possessed. He
then added that, from having been employed
on the case, he had been able to rescue
some portion of what was improperly taken
from her--that il was contained iii the bag
Of gold, which lie laid on tho table-ab- |!
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