Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-12

you have already discussed the matter
with Mr.. Charkup. 1t will have saved
your nerves the shock which the unex-
pected making of such claim might have
caused. came here, at your solicitation,
mark you, to let you know the terms on
which l will compromise this claim, which
both you and your client know TO be
serious and well sustained" Mr.. Granger
here raised his hands IN protest and seemed
to wish to speak, but the hood-gates OF
feminine wrath were open, and he yielded
to the torrent She continued: have
plenty of proofs, bot you need not think
I am going to tell you what they are.
| have only come to let you know my
terms, and you can take them or leave
them, whichever you and your pitiful client
like best Some eight or nine months ago
he gave me one hundred shares in the Old
Judge mine, telling me that they were
good property to hold on to. He has fire.
quently told me that they would reach
thousand dollars per share, but before the
end of the year they have gone up and
gone down, and latterly have been slowly
but steadily falling in value, until now
they are worth about $3.50 share. Now
I propose that Mr.. Charkup shall take
those shares from ne at thousand dollars
each, which he led me to believe they
would be worth. In return | will release
him from all claim which | may have for
breach of promise of marriage, and will
promise never again to modest him by word
or action.
ga hundred thousand dollars !" gasped
Mr.. Granger and all for claim that
does not rest on scrap of evidence. How
do we know that you have not got hus-
band living?"
Eyes, sir, she audaciously replied, 81
have two husbands living, or rather former
husbands, but have been legally divorced
from both. As for evidence, it will be
time enough to show what | have got
when the matter gets into Court. You
need not suppose you can fool me INTO ex-
posing my case with any OF your fishing
questions. Go to your miserable client If
you want to know the truth. He knows
well enough that there is plenty of evil
dence, or | wouldn't be here now"
On the whole, I am inclined to think
that the lady did not need much assistance
from lawyers or others in managing her at
fairs. Mr.. Granger had tried to make her
angry, and had partly succeeded, but her
anger did not lead her into any lndlscre-
ton worse than abuse of his client. The
latter, being out of reach, might be sup
posed not to need much defense, but if he
persisted in the same course the walls of
wrath might be turned on to his own head.
That would be embarrassing, and Mr..
Granger did not like to be abused. except
in the proper place. In court it might be
an agreeable testimony to his skill, and
was altogether according to precedent but
the private treatment of an angry woman
was not laid down in 'sthe books, and
there was neither glory nor profit to be OBJ
tanned. Having attained the MAN object
of the interview-the ascertainment of the
lady g terms-he thought that it might ad.
vantageously be concluded so he re-
marked that he would submit the PROPOSE
ton to his client and would notify her of
the result. He then looked at his watch
again, and opening the door for the lady,
bowed her out
TYio he Tnof;n9,od I