Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-04-18

put one WINDOW, small paneu ana
shadeless. An inner door of this sad
chamber stood half alar, permitting
he visitor unrescrved acquaintance
with the domestic economy OF the ten
Init, for 1t disclosed second room,
Bmaller than the Office and dependent
upon the window of the latter for air
md light Behind a canvas camp cot,
limly visible in the obscurlty OF the
nner apartment, stood small gas
stove surmounted by stewpan, from
which projected the handle of big
In spoon, so that 1t needed no ghost
from the dead to whisper that Joseph
Louden, attorney Mt law, did his own
cooking. Indeed, he looked IT.
Upon the threshold Of the second
room reposed small, worn. light
brown scrub brush Of dog, so cosmo-
boltan In ancestry that his species was
lmost as Understandable as the cast
ron dogs Of the Pike mansion. He
greeted Mr.. Fear Hospitality, having
been SO lately IN oficaSt Of the streets
himself that his adoption had taught
him TO lose only his old tremors. not
bis hopefulness. At the same time Joe
-ose quickly from the deal table, where
be had been working with one hand in
bis hair, the other spattering Ink from
bad pen.
Good for you Happy" he cried
theerfully. 81 hoped you'd come to
zee me today. I've been thinking about
Job for you."
Il don't want a job. nohow"' said
IF. Fear, going to the door. 81 don't
yant to work. There's plenty ways fer
ne to git along without that. But I'll
ay one thing more. Don't you worry
bout gttin law practice. Mike says
Fou're Goin' to git all you want, and if
here amt no other way, why, a few
bf us'l go out and make some fer ye!'
These prophecies and promises over
which Joe chuckled at first, with his
lead cooked to one side, grew very
Don, to his amazement, to wear SUI
|ernatural similarity TO actual fulfill
neut His friends brought him their
|wn friends such as had sinDed against
ne laws Of Canaan, those under the
pan Of the sheriff. those who had
truck in anger, those who had stolen
i night, those who owed and could
ot pay those who lived by the dice,
nd to his other titles to notoriety was
dded that of defender OF the poor
nd wicked. He found his hands full.
specially after winning his first i'm
ortant case, on which occasion Ca
aan thought the Jury mad and was in
ignnnt with the puzzled judge, who
ould not see just how ii had happened.
Joe did not stop at that. He kept on
winning cases, clearing the nnocentand
ghtening the burdens of the guilty
fe became the most dangerous at
orney for the defense in Canaan. His
honorable brethren, accepting the pop
lar view of him, held him IN personal
ontempt, but feared him profession
lily, for he proved that he knew more
ew than they thought existed. Nor
ould any trick him. failing which
nany tempegs We're lost, but never
oe's. His practice was not all crimi-
al, as shown by the peevlsh outburst
! the eminent Buckalcw Che squire
ephew, esteemed the foremost lawyer
e any use trying to foreclose mort
age o. collect note unless this shy
ter gets himself in jailw
The wrath OF Judge Martin Pike was
ugust-tbere was a kind OF sublimity
its immenscness on day when it
efell that the shyster stood betwixt
i'm and money.
lof q ~ zoe IL 10 on n
etween these two and separate them,
hold back the hand of Martin Pike
rom what Il had reached out 10 grasp.
was in the matter of some tax titles
which the magnate had acquired, and
court Joe treated the case with suCn
CERTIFYING simplicity that it seemed al
host credible that the great man had
ounted upon the ignorance and be-
ottedneSs OF Joe's client, n hard drink
hg, disreputable Old farmer. TO get his
tnd away from him without paying
Or it. Now, as every one knew such
thing to be ludicrOuSly impossible. it
ras at once noised abroad in Canaan
hat Joe had helped TO swlndle Judge
Ike out of n large sum OF money it
Fas notorious that tho shyster could
amboozle court and jury with his
hicks. and it was felt that Joe Lou
en- was getting into very deep wa
Prs indeed This was serious. II
he young man did not look out he
hight find himself in the pententary.
Joe did not move into larger Of
ce: he remained in the little room
Fith its one window and its fine
lew Of the ial. His clients were
early all poor, and many of his fees
ute literally nominal. Tatters anC
ags came up the narrow stairway tc
Is door-tatters and rags and pitifu
neries; the bleared, the sodden, the
haunting and rouged, the furtive anc
vary, some in rags, some in tags anC
ome-the sorrlest in velvet gowns
With these, the distressed, the wrong
GERS. the drunken. the dirty and the
cry poor, his work lay and his day:
nj nights were spent.
When Joe went about the streets ~
HAS made to feel his condition by tn,
laborate avoidance, yet furtive at
entiOn, Of every respectable person ht
pet, and when he came home TO hi!
mall rooms and shut the door behinC
Inn he was as one who has beer
iSSpl aud Shotnod In, ri,,Ii, md r,,ns