The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-05-04

"'Heyling!' said the old man, wildly-tmy
boy, Heyling, my dear boy, look, look and,
g,sping for breath, the miserable father point
! ed to the spot where he was struggling for
! life.
"sHarkP said the old mantle cries once
more, He is alive yet: Heyling, save him,
/ save him. @
"The stranger smiled again, and remained
immovable as stone
"sI have wronged you;' shrieked the old
man, falling on his knees, and clasping his
hands together-'be revenged; take my life,
my all, cast me into the water at your feet,
and, if human nature can repress a struggle,
! I will die without stirring hand or foot. Do
1t, Heyling, do it, but save my boy, he is SO
/ young to die
man firmly by the wrist-sI will have life for
life, and here is ONE. My child died before
his fathers eyes, a far more agonising and
painful death than that young slanderer of his
sisters worth is meeting while speak. You
! laughed; laughed in your daughters face, where
death had already set his hand-at our suffer-
ings then. What think you of them now
See there, see there
GAS the stranger spoke, he pointed to the
sea. A faint cry died away upon its surface,
the last powerful struggle of the dying man
agitated the ripping waves for few seconds;
and the spot where he had gone down into his
early grave, was undistinguishable from the
surrounding water.
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"Three years had elapsed, when gentleman
alighted from private carriage at the door of
London attorney, then well known to the
public as a man of great nicely in his pro-
| fessional dealings, and requested private in
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evidently not past the prime of life, his face
was pale, haggard, and detected, and it did not
require the most acute perception of the man
| of business to discover at glance, that dis
ease or suffering had done more to work change
| in his appearance, than the mere hand of time
could have accomplished in twice the period
of his whole life.
"'I wish Tou to undertake some legal bus;-
ness for me said the stranger.
"The attorney bowed obsequiously, and
glanced at large packet which the gentleman
carried in his hand. His visitor observed the
look, and proceeded. - .+. -se.s st
"sIt is no common business said he; snor
have these papers reached my hands without
long trouble and great expense avrs
"Hhe attorney cast still more anxious look
at the packet; and his visitor, untying the
string that bound it, disclosed quantity of
pronissory notes, with some copies of deeds,
and other documents. s
"'Upon these papers, said the client, 'the
man whose name they bear, has raised, as you
will see large sums of money, for years past
There was tacit understanding between him
and the men in whose hands they originally
went-and from whom I have by degrees pur-
chased the whole, for treble and quadruple
their nominal value-that these loans should
| be from time to time renewed, until a given
period had elapsed. Such an understanding
| is nowhere expressed. He has sustained ma
ny losses of late: and these obligations accu-
mulating on him at cnce, would crush him to
the earth 49,
! "sThe whole amount is some thousands of
pounds said the attorney, looking over the pa
| pers.
| s'It is,' said the client. -
| "'What are we to do 2 inquired the man of
| business.
'.Do replied the client, with sudden vehe-
mence-tPut every engine of the law in force
every trick that ingenuity can devise and rascal
! ity execute; fair means and foul; the open op-
preston of the law, aided by all the craft of its
most ingenious practitioners. I would have
| him die harrassing and lingering Death
Ruin him, seize and sell his lands and goods,
drive him from house and home, and drag him
forth beggar in his old age, to die in a COM
mon jail
"sBut the costs, my dear Sir; the costs of all
this; reasoned the attorney, when he had recov-
cred from his momentary surprise-'f the de-
fsndant be a man of straw, who is to pay the
| costs, Sir!' e-
s.sName any, sum, said the stranger, his hand
trembling SO violently with excitement, that he
could scarcely hold the pen he seized as he
spoke-fany sum, and it is yours. Don't be
afraid to name it. man. / shall not think it
dear, if you gain my object
"The attorney named a large sum, at hazard,
as the advance he should require to secure him
self against the possibility of loss; but more
with the view of ascertaining how far his client
was disposed to go, than with any idea that he
would comply with the demand. The stranger
wrote a cheek upon his banker for the whole
amount and left him.
ney finding that his client might be safely reli-
ed upon, commenced his work in earnest
For more than two years afterwards, Mr. Hey
| ling would sit whole days together, in the office,
porting over the papers as they accumulated,
and reading again and again, his eyes cleaning
with ioy, the letters of remonstrance, the
prayers for little delay, the representation of
| the certain ruin in which the opposite party
must be involved, that poured in, as suit after
suit and process after process, was commenced.
To all applications for brief indulgence, there
was but ore reply-the money must be paid
Land, house, furniture tach in its turn, taken
/ under some one of the numerous executions
which were issued; and the old man himself
would have been immured in prison had he not
escaped the vigilance of the officers and fed.
''The implacable animosity of Heyling,, so
far from being satisfied by the success of his
persecution, increased hundred-fold with the
ruin he inflicted. On being informed of the
| old mans flight his fury was unbounded. He
gnashcd his teeth with rage, tore the hair from
his heat, and assailed with horrid imprecations
the men who had been intrusted with the writ
He was only restored to comparative calmness
by repeated assurances of the certainty of dis
covering the fugitive. Agents we're sent in
quest of him in allsdirections; every stratagem
that could be invented was resorted to, for the
purpose of discovering his place of retreat; but
it was all in vain. Half year had passed
over, and he was still undiscovered.
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