Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-08-15

from the dead to whisper that Josepl
Louden, attorney at law, did his owl
cooking. Indeed, he looked lt!
Upon the threshold of the secont
room reposed a small, worn, ligh
brown scrub brush of a dog, so cosmo
polltan In ancestry that his species wal
almost as undeterDllnable as the cas-
iron dogs of the Pike mansion. II,
| greeted Mr.. Fear Hospitality. having
been so lately an offcast Of the streets
himself that his adoption had taught
him to lose only his old tremors, moi
| his hopefulness. At the same time Joe
rose quickly from the deal table. where
he had been working, with one hand In
his hair, the other splattering ink from
a bad pen.
Good for you, Happyw he cried
cheerfully. II hoped you'd come to
see me today. I've been thinking about
a job for you"
II don't want a Job, nohowp said
Mr.. Fear, going TO the door. II don't
want TO work. There's plenty ways fer
me TO git along without that. But I'll
say one thing more. Don't you worry
about glttln' law practice. Mike says
you're goin' to git all you want. and II
there amt no other way, why, few
OF us'll go out and make some fer yer
These prophecies and promises, over
which Joe chuckled at first, with bis
head cooked to one side, grew very
soony 20 his amazement, TO wear n su-
pernatural similarity TO actual fulfill
ment. His friends brought him their
own friends such as had sinned against
the laws OF Canaan, those under the
ban OF the sheriff, those who had
struck In anger, those who had stolen
at night, those who owed and could
not pay, those who lived by the dice,
and TO his other titles to notoriety was
added that OF defender OF the poor
and wicked. He found his hands full.
especially after winning his first Inn
portant case, on which occasion Ca
naan thought the Jury mad and was In
dlgnant with the puzzled judge, who
could not see just how II had happened.
Joe did not stop at that. He kept on
winning cases. clearing the innocentand
tightening the burdens OF the guilty.
He became the most dangerous at-
torney for the defense In Canaan. His
honorable brethren, accepting the pop
ular view OF him, held him In personal
contempt, but feared him profession
ally. for he proved that he knew more
law than they thought existed. Nor
could any trick him, failing which
many tempers were lost, but never
Joe's. His practice was not all criml-
nal, as shown by the peeyish outburst
OF the eminent Buckalew (the squlre's
nephew. esteemed the foremost lawyer
In Canaan). Before long there won't
be any use trying 10 foreclose n mort
gage or collect note unless this shy
ster gets himself In jailr'
The wrath OF Judge Martin Pike was
august-there was kind OF subllmity
In Its immenseness-on day when II
befell that the shyster stood betwixt
him and money.
That was monstrous task-to stand
between these two aud separate them,
10 hold back the hand bf Martin Pike
from what IL had reached out TO grasp.
Il was In the matter OF some tax titles
which the magnate had acquired. and
IN court Joe treated the case with such
horrlfylng simplicity that II seemed al.
most credible that the great man had
upon the ignorance and be-
OF Joe's client, hard drink
ing. disreputable old farmer, to get his
Iand away from him without paying
for II. Now. as every one knew such
/ thing 20 be ludlcrously impossible, II
was at once noised abroad in Canaan
hat Joe had helped 20 swindle Judge |
Pike out OF large sum OF money-lt |
was notorious that the shyster could |
Dambooxle court and jury with his |
tricks. and II was felt that Joe Lou. |
len was getting into very deep wa.
ers indeed. This was serious. IL |
he young man did not look out he
night tind himself in the penltentary,
Joe did not move into larger Of |
ice; he remained In the little room |
With It's one window aud lts fine |
'iew OF the Jail. His clients were
early all poor, and many OF his fees
ute literally nominal. Tatters aud /
ags came up the narrow stairway 20
is door-tatters and rags and pitiful
neries; the bleared, the sodden. the
aunting and rouged. the furtive ana
Iary, some in rags. some In tags and
Ome-the sorriest--in velvet gowns.
With these. the distressed. the wrong
oers, the drunken. the dirty and the
cry poor. his work lay aud his days
nj nights were spent.
When joe went about the streets he
'as made 20 feel his condition by the
laborate avoidance, yet furtiye at
,ntlon. OF every respectable person he
let and when he came home % his
mall rooms aud shut the door behind
I'm he was as one who has been
Issed and shamed in public and runs
} bury his hot face In his pillow. lie
cited his mongrel extravagantly (well
. might and would sit with him In
Is rooms at night holding long con
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