The Forrest City times., 1894-01-12
FORREST CITY, ARK, FRIDAY AFTERNOON JANUARY 12, 1884,

| hopeless way. Can you excuse me? Put Simpson in, or some one, just while | go to town and call on Dorothy and pu. things to rights; she can't really mean to ruin me; she knows I never really said l would, because she never would give me the chance" ''I think the matter had better be put l into the solicitors hands," said the sec | retary.
 70, if Jumbo's really going to go up to town and be subp9naed and writted and summoned and caveat-emptored and all that kind of law stuff three times a week, I'll wire to Caius to see if Huggins is still up," said the president.
 Dash it, old chap! don't kick me out | for this" said Six, almost tearfully.
 'I'll do anything, pay anything, not to lose my blue-unless, of course, you think I'm not good enough Here the secretary looked puzzled and seemed to have forgotten some thing. He took off his light-blue cap and scratched his head; and the presi- dent, reaching round sinewy leg be- hind Jumbos back. kicked the trusty henchman. The kick had no inspiring effect.
 Cant you suggest anything?' said the president.
 70, yes" said the secretary, with an effort; ''who coaches us to-day, Smith son? l wish it was Parsons; he's barrister, and could tell us what to do.'
 A doctor who once threatened to 1 knock off Jumbo's beer, buttered toast and tobacco at one fell swoop, and make him rise daily at six o'clock a. m., had not alarmed him so much as did half an hour with this confidential legal adviser just before dinuer. Cant we wire?' asked the president, producing the back of a letter. And in response to their message the tall form of Mir. Parsons darkened the doorway before the eight went down to the 1 river to take advantage of the after noon's tide
 A young solicitor, a friend of Mir. Parsons, was to come next day to take his instructions for entering an appear ance and all subsequent matters in the | suit, and from that day forward he and MT. Parsons were to conduct every de- tail between them at their discretion.
 Jumbo was to do nothing but what they told him not even to write or an swer letter or open one till they had seen it. and, above all, not to worry. That was the great point. He was not to worry.
 The crew impressed it on him to a man; they inquired after his nerves fn ,,,f on an air of anxiety and compassion | whenever they met him, stopping whenever they would otherwise have passed him to lay a weighty grip up- on him and beg him to keep up his spirits.
 The effect of the inquiries of Bow. Two, Three. Four and Five on Six. and the fact that Seven and Stroke always insisted on drinking the reduction of damages" in the measures of port all lowed them after dinner, was to dis tress rather than to relieve his mind.
 MT. Parsons, too, was a young man, and was then young practitioner; his methods of doing business and advising his client were not consoling. He took a serious view from the first: it was question of damages" he said.
 II am afraid" sad Mr. Parsons, that you are being very badly treated; it is her solicitors who are doing it. Regular blood-suckers. know them" ''The fiends!" groaned No. 6, writh- ing; "and I've only twenty-five thou sand dollars in all-every thing have for my old age" He was then twenty two. so his position was a sad one.
 If I went to these solicitors and thrashed them" he said, grinding his teeth.
 'They would only sue you for dam ages" said Mir. Parsons, land be glad of the chance of doing so."
 ''rd break every bone in their con- founded bodies.' said No. 6. Whatever complaints may be made about the laws delays, No. 6 in the Cam bridge crew of 1S- had none to record. He was startled at it's rapidity. A document half yard long entitled Statement of Claim" arrived in MT. Parsons pocket the day after the writ had been served. Itwas answered that day.
 'sThe rules only allow twenty-four hours for the delivery of the defense in cases of breach of promise" said Mir. Parsons. Its a new enactment to prevent fraud and concealment of as- sets. They'll get an order for dis covery, and, perhaps,a ne exeat regno tomorrow.
 And sure enough they did. The or der for discovery was the most unkind- est cut of all Her letters were always in his r2cket. There were only five. orJ <braa xyara in vit a tiopS to dipuar ar