Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1888-07-19
CAPTkiN ROBsTOHE's WILL.
NY FIRST CLIENT

usuai s.gh for success2 l think il
does The first clause !n the local
creed IT, that each man will find his
own level. and that therefore it is use-
less to aid or 10 stop him in any of his
trials on his Way TO that end
When your time has come TO be at
the top Of the ladder, you'll go there, I"
said the senior member of the law firm
of SHARP and Bright to me. after hear
/ ing - soes.
But II some frierd i began.
You can't be put there before your
turn, excuse me, be interrupted
hastily, but come aud dine with me,
We !! @ to the theatre afterward, and
you II feel better
We went | vas presented TO all the
the friends who spoke to my host, and
passed the evening IN a dream Of
( speedy gains and professional honors.
+ For the Sharps were the richest and
best-known members OF the bar of San
Francisco Surely my turn was COM
I ing now
The next day | went back to my
oihce, which was at the end Of Cali
fornia Street, and for a month the
rumble OF teams OH the plack road,
. and the pelting rain, were the only
breaks in it's silence If Mr.. Sharp
had but given me me dollars worth
of work, but there, that is the way
IN California.
How long does it take to write a
will2"
This was the demand that broke
my revery on stormy Saturday after
noon, ,-November 5, 1866, to be e1.
act.
locked up, and flushed the color
Of the b.otting paper before me, whose
red tint bore not the impress 0t =
single scrawl. ! was exited at the
prospect .. case. doubly 20. because
my client Was . young and pretty
woman.
How hltle writing and signing
will 10 for a will continued my fair
visitor, sweeping across the room, and
throwing her .ilk hounccs out at the
side Of the chair near me, seat, ere
this, never occupied by any client.
Well, madame" I began. "mnrt
the will be long cne2''
That Just what l want 10 know,
she exclaimed, out Of breath from
too hasty walk, a. was plain from the
pretty paIritatlon o. her throat and
chest.
Indeed resumed, Il could not
state just the time needed what is the
number Of the heirzr
There more twenty. she burst
out imPetuously.
shook my head.
But they axe none OF thein to have
anything except last myself she
added.
"A point gained, madame, said l,
smiling. You can omit twenty per-
sons from Will without any loss of
time OF waste OF INK.
This was meant 10 be finished, but
my client was SO Interested a. to pass
over ia humor and say with all
seriousness,-
u thought so. I'm glad was right
on one point.
Then the property must he left to
you alone? | inquired.
OF course, Il II can be SO, she re.
piled.
Doubtless it can. madame; OF what
does it consist l asked.
House and land on Telegraph Hill,
said she, curtly.
was yet III doubt whether my
visitor Was maid, wife, or widow, and
was about to ask, when she pettishly
exelaimed,-
oh, dear how slow lawyers are"
and she began to beat the floor with
little foot whose neatness l should
have seen, If in the very chamber of
death.
Why can't you so and see him?'
she cried, as though had heretofore
declined to 10 SO.
is he very low l inquired. sooth-
inely.
Yes, very low down indeed; was
so frightened. But We can get there
was her quick reply.
And you are sure that we shall
find him in a state to be approached
said |, with sympathy.
! ! know We shall, they told me he
would ut sink any more. she replied,
with singular assurance.
That was some time ago. I sue.
gested.
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