The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-06-21

e night, those who owed and coull
cot par. those who lived By til dice
and TO his other titles to notO-iety war
added that OF defender OF the pool
and wicked. lie found his HANS full
especially after winning his first i'm
portant case. on which occasiou ca
aaan thought the jury mad and was in.
iignant with the puzzled judge. who
sould not see inst !, Nv II had happened.
Joe did not stop AT that. lie kent OH
winning cases. clearing the innOceltand
tightening the burdens OF the guilty.
He became the most dangerous at
Iorney for the defense In Canaan. His
honorable brethren accepting the pop
alar view Of him, held him in personal
contempt. bet feared him profession
ally. for he proved that be knew more
Rw then they thought existed. Nor
>ould - trick him. failing which
many teIiners were lost. but never
IOe's. His practice was not all crimi-
AL, as shown 10y the peevish outburst
" the eminent Buckalew 1.-THE sqiiire's
aephew, esteemed the foremost lawyer
n Canaan, Before long there won't
De any use trying to foreclose a mort
gage or collect a note unless this shy
Tter gets himself in jailr'
The wrath of Judge Martin Pike was
-august-there was a kind of sublimity
q Its immcnseness-on a day when 1t
0efell that the shyster stood betwixt
aim and money
That was a mOnstrous task-to stand
between these two and separate them,
70 hold back the hand of Martin Pike
rom what il had reached out to grasp.
1t was in the matter of some tax titles
which the magnate had acquired, and
U court Joe treated the case with such
certifying simplicity that 1t seemed al
most credible that the great man had
eounted upon the ignorance ana De-
IOttedness of Joe's client, hard drink
ing, disreputable old farmer, to get his
and away from him without paying
Tor it. Now, as every one knew such
1 thing to be ludicrously impossible, it
was at once noised abroad in Canaan
hat Joe had helped to swindle Judge
Pike out of large sum of money-it
vas notorious that the shyster could
Namboozle court and jury with his
tricks, and it was felt that Joe Lou
ien was getting into very deep wa
hers indeed This was serious. If
he young man did not look out he
night find himself in the penitentiary.
. Joe did not move into a larger Of
Gee; he remained In the little room
with its one window and its fine
view of the jail. His clients were
nearly all Door, and many of his fees
quite literally nominal. Tatters and
rags came up the narrow stairway to
his door-tatters and rags and pitiful
fneries; the bleared, the sodden, the
Haunting and rouged, the furtive and
wary, some in rags some in tags and
some-the sOlTiest-in velvet gowns.
With these, the distressed the wrong
doors, the drunken, the dirty and the
very poor, his work lay and his days
and nights were spent.
When Joe went about the streets he
was made to feel his condition by the
elaborate avoidance, yet furtive at
tention, of every respectable person he |
met and when he came home to his |
small rooms and shut the door behind |
him he was as one who has been |
Kissed and shamed in public and runs
to bury his hot face in his pillow. He
petted his mongrel extravagantly well |
he might and would sit with him in
his rooms at night holding long con-
verse with him, the two alone togeth-
6dant There came to be another,
more and more frequent partner to
their conversations, at last familiar
spirit. This third came from a brown
Jug which Joe kept on shelf in his
bedroom, vessel too frequently re-
lone he shut himself up, drank alone
md drank hard Sometimes when the
lug ran low and the night was late he
would go out for a walk with his dog
Ind would awake In his room the next
morning not remembering Where he
lad gone or how he had come home.
)nce, after such a lapse of memory.
he woke amazed to find himself at
Beaver Beach, whittier, he learned
rom the red bearded man, Happy Fear
lad brought him, having found him
dazedly in field near b..
'hese lapses grew more frequent until
here occurred that which was one o.
he strange things o. his life
1t was n June night. little more
han two years after his return to
anaan, and the Tocsin had that day
the approaching marriage
Eugene Bantry and his employers
aughter Joe ate nothing during the
ay and went through his work clumsi-
;, visiting the bedroom shelf at inter-
ais. At 10 in the evening he went out
, have the jug refilled. but from the
oment he left his door and the fresh
Ir struck his face he had no clear
nowledge of what he did or of what
ent on about him until he woke in
Is bed the next morning.
And vet whatever little part of the
Il