St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-02-06

landlord of the hotel, who was one OF
the crowd ''that fellow with stove
pipe hat and suit of brown velvet
clothes. He stopped with your" r..
YES" replied the landlord g L re-
member him. He was there to dinner
and supper and left on the down boat
'Wen,' continued the Recorder,
''that was Blake's brother-in-la law. [
don t know whether he is as big g ras-
cal as Blake was OF not, but anyway it
seems that Blake got hard up and bor-
rowed fifteen hundred dollars of this
brotherin-laW and gave q mortgage ON
that place up there for security.
at was more than the ranch was worth
at the time, but reckon Blake was in
fix where he had to have that amount,
and as that was all the security he had
to give, his brother-ir law let him have
it. May be he never went to look at
the place at all, but just took Blake's
sayso for what the property was worth.
"Well, after bit, Blake, who was
always looking over the records to see
if he couldn't strike lead of some
kind, happened to stumble onto the fac
that old Puterbaugh hadn't indexed
that mortgage, and he made up his
mind to sell fireplace to somebody else
and leave the country.
''He knew no one would be likely to
see the mortgage in making an abstract
and if they did discover it, why he
would say it had been paid and de-
stroyed, but the party had neglected to
cancel it on the records. Then he would
buster around, pretending to be look
ing for the party who had held it in Or
would never be able to find him, Snd
pretty soon the man who was going to
buy the place would get sick of waiting
and 90 off somewhere else, or buy an
other place, and the whole thing would
be forgotten.
AT least, that's the way l figure
it all out, and reckon amt very far
from right"
s.But how does it come that this
brother-in- law hasn't put in claisn for
his interest money all this time:?" asked |
one Of the bystanders. ''It his claim
on the place is good, he has been losing |
a pile OF dust by not collectin' his in
terest from year to year"
''Well, may be SO, and then again
may be not" returned the Recorder:
You see, the improvements Parsons
has put on the place is worth a good
deal more than the interest. Besides,
this brother-in-law may not have known
that Blake had sold the place and was
just making it easy on Blake, as he
supposed.
Anyway, the mortgage is there, and
II you'll step over to Tom Anderson
Office guess You'll find that he has the
Job of forecIosing it in the next term of
court, which begins the second Monday
of next month, and that he has already
sent notice to the Nevs for publication,
as required by law
Its an outrage on the old man with
The crippled boy remarked one, as
The crowd dispersed. land Blake ought
to swing for it. If he was back again,
[ d be one to help do it.
"And !" land t. land t. echoed
! dozen voices.
But Blake was not there, and will
doubtless take good care never to 60
pack. If living still, he is probably to
De found in New York, or some other
great city, running some swindling in
'titution by means of which he obtains
| living. He may even have amassed
| fortune, and if SO, should be looked
or, ifwanted, among the presidents of
avings banks, or managers of some
corporate monopoly, robbing the people
lnder the shelter of the lew.