West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1885-01-30

I i've Oh my Cilcul, recommended ne to
! see YOU and consult with YOU as "A law
1 Yer eminently skilled in his class of
/ business
/ Mr. Godfrey acknowledged the COM
/ pllmcnt, adding that hs had had the
I honor To advise the Earl of Warwick in
| matters of the nature referred 10 and his
\ advice had turned out TO be valuable and
| judicious.
Mr. Pallistcr and Mr.. Godfrey con
| NcrSed for some time. and then Mr. Pal
/ lister complimented Mr. Godfrey on the
/ admirable order i'm which he kept his
! Oilce. adding that, as for his firm, they
had given over attempting TO keep an
/ orderly office.
Now, l suppose, said Pallister
! you know where every document is
filed away and can reach it mo-
ment?'
Yes, wa, the reply. my method is
very simple. Here is register, YOU
/ see. devote so many pages to each
! client, and every document relating to
/ their business is entered with number
/ appended, which corresponds TO the
/ number on "a drawer. Where letter Is
/ used IL refers to box. Now here. for
/ instance, Is Parsons. Sec-each docu-
/ mcnt is sufficiently described. and there
Is the number Of the drawer. The adj
/ vantage is this: If | kept all Parsons
/ documents together. ! should have to
/ hunt over all OF them every time |
/ wanted particular one Now | look
here. and have it i'm moment"
/ Excellent said Mr.. Palistcr. "iust
/ let me yet the idea" and he turned over
/ several pages, and then, CLOSED the book
/ with another expression of approval
Then, declining an invitation to dinner
he placed handsome fee i'm the law
yer's hand and departed.
THE VISITORS RETURN.
An hour later, messenger came IN
/ with note from Mr. Pallister. askino
Mr.. Godfrey TO come at once To the Hen
/ and Chickens, rs he omitted an impor-
tant matter. Mr.. Godfrey at once
started. He had left the house only
! five minutes when a coach drove To the
| door, and Mr. Pallistcr alighted He
said TO the clerk
The moment | sent the letter. | saw
/ how foolish it was TO waste so much
| time, and so came right here i'm the hone
/ OF catching Mr. Godfrey 1t is too bad
/ | say, young man, can't YOU Jump into
/ the carriage, follow Mr.. Godfrey TO the
Hen and Chickens, and bring him right
back?"
II see no reason why | shouldn't. g"
| SAID the clerk, and i'm a minute he was
/ haNicniug after his master rs fast as a
/ PAIR Of horses could carry him. Left
/ alone, Mr. Pallistcr amused himself bv
again examining the register. and.secing
whether the numbers appended TO the
/ documents corrcSpOndcd with those ON
the drawers. and whether the documents
80 numbered were TO be- found i'm the
said drawers. Then he sat down and
waited, having first arranged the papers
i'm large leather pockct-book To his
satisfaction. After Mr. Godfrev's arri-
val few minutes >ulliced To close the
consultation for good. Mr.. Pallstcr
! handed Mr. Godfrey another fee and
then drove on
THE WIDOW AND HER son.
Mrs. Caroline Thwaitcs was the widow
I OF Thomas IhwaitcS, of Appelev Court.
/ Narwlckshirc. Mr. Thwaitcs had been
dead SlN months, leaving his widow and
/ a son and heir, Charles. aged fourteen.
/ MI IhWalteS had greatly disappointed
/ a younger brother by uneNpectcdly. nj
/ the age of sixty, bringing home wife.
| whom he had picked up on the out
. skirts OF a Scottish moor. where he
/ went for the shooting. Nobody knew
. who she was Orwhcnce she came. but she
/ was lady-like and fond of her husband
and they lived happily together Two
/ months after her husband death She
was notified that his brother. George
Ihwaitc-. claimed the estate ON the
| ground that she was not the lawful wife
/ of the deceased, and that her son was
/ lllcTltlmatc She consulted her LAWYER.
I Mr. Godfrey, of Birmingham and left
/ the matter i'm his hands She handed
| him her certificate of marriage and
said:
There. keep it, You are my friend.
( and 10 will he safer i'm your keeping
/ than I'm mine.
The lawyer subsequently, wrote TO
/ George Ihwaitc.: "'The certificate of
/ the marriage of your late brothcrto Car
/ ohnc Macdonald, at Mofat. Dunn
/ llc-hirc is i'm my possession / can't
+ conceive how YOU can have any lust
/ gounI of complaint Then Mr.
. George Ihwa.tcs wrote back saving
/ that hc supposed If it was 90, Mr. Cod
/ ircE stated he must rest content So
. things stood
On February O,ls23. Mrs Thwnitc,
was served with papers iu uu action i'm
. elecimcnt. wherein the Hlcgft.m8cy of
her child wa, fully set forth A, the
matter was TO- Doe pushed ON. She immo-
/ dIately directed her lawyer Co prepare to
. defend the cause.
CERTIFICATE AND RECORD MISSING
( Mr. Godfrey consulted bis register.
found thc entry of Che marriage crrtiG
cate of Thomas Ihwai'o- and Caroline
IhWaitc-. a-cer'aincd thcuumb,r of tb,
drawer and went Co TO- Pow paper,
were here. only half dozen and the
certificate was not one of them. Every
box, every drawer every uoo, and cor
ner was searched boo vain tine mlrri,oa
certificate could not Doe found
Mr. Godfrey started bt mafl-co1.b fo
Carlisle. and thence posted Co Nlonaf
Ie searched the records of thc parrish
church. hu' nY record of tha MARRIAGE
was to Doc found. UprNamiuod the book
very carefully and was satisfied that
tHc leaf covering the date OF One mar
rage had been removed be questioned
I1. CLERK. bout '' mo- purpose Thcmm
t-ter was dead who 0Gcmlod at fEc
time oud mo- one knew tlc name. of tle
w.tno--u-
Ii.r wa- d..omma quito which flr
lawyer could nuf oe h. wal THn r.r-
tH.1'. ~.D. aud tln record DESTROYED