The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-02-21

i MED the deposit had he not been in great pt
!, cuniary straits; soon he would be able to pa
D up; he lmpl0red his client to pardon him AM
[ to keep the matter secret. All the success o
} his house rested upon confidence Shak
) that confidence and there was an end 10 hi
, credit.
| The youth believed his repentance to bt
sincere; he promised Paso not to seek hi
ruin, and lett it To him TO fix upon such time
and mode Of payment as would best suit thei
mutual interests
! Three days afterwards they met again, a.
before, without witnesses. They agreed upon
the following basis of settlement, which was
to be
KEPT STRICTLY PRIVATE:
| Pasio would embark with his client for the
Bosphorus, and, on arrival, should pay him
the money. If he failed to pay, Satyros
should be arbitrator, and if the Prince decl.
ded against Pasio, the latter should pay, in
addition to the principal, fine of half AS
much more. The terms of this contract were
reduced to writing, and the document itself,
duly signed and sealed, committed to the safe
keeping of a third party-the captain of Il,
vessel plying between Athens and the king
dom OF BospAOrOs AS soon as he should be
informed that the terms Of the Contract we're
fulfilled, he was to burn the document 9th.
erwise, he was to deliver it to Satvros in
person.
All this appeared satisfactory But Pasio
did not find it so easy to settle with Mcney
enes who had commenced an action AGAINST
him for SANDER, demanded that Kittos sLouId
bc put to torture, and LAID his damagcs at six
talens-the sum he had been obliged to fur.
nish as bail. Paslo implored the young for.
eigner to induce his friend to withdraw his
suit, but he refused to interfere.
ppsin In g.,
should hear OF the contract, in which case all
was lost, as MeneXencs would undoubtedly
expose him. SO he contrived new scheme
He succeeded in corrupting one of the slaves
OF the Captain, and induced him to
STEAL THE CONTRACT.
For this he substituted another contract
aGrotly forged. This done, he recovered ali
his pristine impudence To the reoucst of
his client that he would now set out unon the
voyage, he coolly replied that he had no idea
)f doing anything of the kind, and vowed
hat he did not owe an 0b0l0s to this fellow
who bothered him so. The stranger insisted,
PasiO demands that the contract
DC produced and read before witnesses. Judge |
IF the surprise of Menexencs and his friend |
Upon finding receipt in full given by the |
stranger to the banker But one resource re-
NAMED to MeneXenes, if he did not wish to
USE Ills lhOutJ anu pass LOT II CulumnlutOr.
lie brought suit against Pasio tor
FORGERY IN THE FIRST DEGREE.
Meantime the young SOp1oS returned home
without Pasio, who, however, did send his
cashier and confident Kittos. Satyros listen.
ID to the affair as represented by the oppos-
ng sides, but declared himself incompetent
o decide upon What had happened at Athens.
However, to show his interest in the son of
lis tavOrilc, he called together the Athpnian
lptains and merchants then in port and !
cgged them to take part with him at Athens
nd not to allow the youth to be victmized
y PaslO He also addressed a letter to the |
eoplc OF Athens, recommending to them ,
I'm who was about to appear before them, '
onliding in their justice, The young Sopaos I
tturned to Athens and the case was tried be d
)re the Polimarch, and from the rank of the |
laintitf, the intervention of Satyros, on which q
socrates dwclls, the wealth of Pasio the an L
asiness of his partners and of his clients, +
aust have enlisted the public attention in a 4
reat measure. /
Singularly enough, Il
HISTORY Is SILENT
$ to the results Of the trial. 1t seems unite +
kelly that some compromise was made, for L
e find the banking house of Pasio 81 Co. p
rich and prosperous Forty wears n
ter Demosthenes says Of him, without fear el
contradiction, "PaSio obtained public con- OF
ience-a rare thing and marvellous among Is
en- who operate upon the market and trade CO
money, to appear at the same time active IN
ID honest" c. II. w.