Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1901-06-20

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fuf enough TO get along in this world
with men, let alone women. He
| thought Miss Mead would never look
at him, ana | suppose she took him at
| his own valuation. Women are apt to
do that, you know. At any rate, he
made no progress. You know what /
mean. | am telling you the results Of
my observations. Harrison never said
anything about it.
Well, after Miss Mead met you at
Tampa last year the boys chances
seemed TO dwindle to nothing"
1 1t seems to me you are making a
long story of it." said Willoughby.
Cant you cut it,"
! Better let me go on, guess. Now
| I've told you how the case stood when
Miss Mead came north last year
| Tie listener made another move to
| protest against the form the narrative
| had taken, but realizing that his ter
mentor knew no other way of telling
| what he had made up his mind to say
| Willoughby settled back again.
Three or four months after we had
! been reading in the newspapers about
.
drawn on jury" \ groan from Will
loughby announced his despair at this
new DEPRESSION, but Scott went on
without a pause:
You will see the connection later.
helped him kill time while he waited to
be called and when he was finally
drawn / was there as regularly as the
| judge | have forgotten the title of the
case they put him on. 1t was the heirs
of somebody against a man named
| Stevens. who held lot of property
that was claimed by the heirs under a
will. Stevens claimed under n deed.
and the suit was brought to set aside
the deed on the ground that it was
obtained by fraud
when the lawtt ~ each side went
through the form OF ass.ng the jury
men II they knew any Of the interested
| parties To the suit, / saw Harrison
shake his head In bored way. To cut
this part short, Miss Mead walked into
! the courtroom ON the second day of the
trial Harrison told me afterward that
/ he knew in an instant that she was in
terested in the case. Before he left the
| see one Of the exhibits, and. reading
| the caption he found that his intuition
/ had been correct. l believe Miss Mead
| had been made a party 10 the suit aft
er L had been begun in lower court,
ard her name did not appear in the
! list which the lawyers read when they
| polled the jury.
we talked the matter over that
! evening. and OF course | advised the
| boy to explain to the court that he had
discovered since the trial began that he
vas acquainted with one Of the plain
/ tiffs in the case. | have not been able
to make up my mind as to why he in
sisted upon going OF with the trial. !
explained to him that IT was very
risky thing to do. He always was bull
headed. though, when he made UP his
mind
Miss Mead Gid rot come to the
courtroom again untl tho last day OF
! the trial. Tie lawyers strGag it ont for
two weeks. II WAS a yery close case.
| could never have decided it either
way. y had reen fought by skilled
| lawyers from the start ard they had
succeeded u Keeping everything off the
/ record tlaJ would throw l.glst On the
questions at Issue There was some
thing lIke 100000 81 $4,000 IN II for
each II tile heirs under tie uili. These
heirs were ncccs If The original bene-
lciary. Hut that hasn't anything ia do
with this story. Miss Mead IS not rich.
/ believe" the narrator added reflect
lively
As have told YOU, Miss Mead was
on hand TO hear the lawyers sum up
on tile last day Of the trial She toog
good care not to sit where Harrison
could see here but he passed within
ten inches Of her when the l. men fled
ont 10 the jury room. II was a long.
uneasy wait for rae while that jury de.
liberated, as the newspapers say. Har
rison was the foreman. and when lie
got mp 10 deliver the verdict / could
feel my heart beating way UP in my
throat 4"
Go on, 80 on" Willoughby urged as
Scott paused at the recollection Of how
his heart acted ON this occasion.
well the jury decided against the
heirs at every point. Stevens had sew
erai deeds, ana every one was SuStaln-
ed The heirs didn't get a shilling.
Miss Mead had left the room by the
time the jury was discharged"
by Joye" namely remarked the
listener
yes. sir. ana Harrison told me he
had 4 hard time persuading two Of the
jurymen to decide against the-against
her.
But don't quite see willoughby
began.
of course you don't, nay brave sol
der boy. am coming to that now.
Harrison, mind you, had not seen
Miss Mead for the two weeks, except
on those two days during the trial, ana
he did not hurry about calling after the
verdict | think that It was a week
later that we all met at the theater, a
great niece of luck for the bow | can't