Putnam patriot., 1909-04-23
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pulled stroke oar on me university crew. He keeps his athletic trophies and souvenirs of ali kinds ia his bach elar apartments at the Westmoreland. One day was moving about inspect ing them when came across large and elaberately made spoon-
 ~W6ere cid sou win that9" asked.
 He smiled
 souvenir of some affair of the heart:e
 No. he said. In that spoon is a story of
 ~Don,t tell the end first. If you're going to give me the story. begin at the beginning.
 He tiled and it pipe and aceeded to my request.
 ..When l was beginning To practice law | did what nest young lawyers do. spent ny spare time in eourt. for the sake of experience. One day a young Frenc chwoman-Lufille Dev. eroux. geverness-was up for trial for approprialing her employers jew els and other articles. Having no coun- sel. | was assigned to the task of de- lending her. I conferred with her. lis- tening to her story. endeavoring To make up my mind as 10 her guilt or innocence Suddenly she said:
 ".You cannot do my case Justice un- less you are convinced of my innocence, and in that you do not believe. l am in a terrible situation My father was one of the noblesse of France, his ia ther dying in the Place de Revolution in Paris in the reign of terror. Sup pose am convicted. How can l, with the blood that flows in my veins, en- dure 10 go behind harsf And in France? What would those have left there suffer on learning that l am eonvieta Tl4c circumstances are strong ly against me To prove py inno- ceaee k impossible My attorney must understand this and. believing in it. throw himself feelinglY into the case to induce the jury to believe as he dees despite eireumStantial evidence.
 There vas lats ef practical sense and knowledge ef such matters in this which Was surprised 10 find in yeung and pretty woman. told her to give me her version of the affair, which she did in so straightforward story that she succeeded in convincing he that she was the victim of con spiracy hatched between the cook and the maid in the house where Mile. peveronx taught the children French. I admitted that 1 believed in her inno- cenee and would do my best for her. I could not but sympathize with her on account of her unfortunate situa- tien. while l was drawn to her by her beauty and natural ability.
 ITO save her Il was necessary to i'm pugn the value of the testimony of the maid and the cook. could not break the testimony itself-they told too straight a story-but Mile. Dever- oux sent the eoaehman 10 me, who was willing to tell things that cast stain on the maid and left the cook no reputation at all. Armed with this testimony. l made pretty geod offset against the value of their evidence. Indeed. succeeded in putting them in hole felt sorry for the maid, she seemed so terribly cut up about what the eoaehman said about her, but. you see my sympathies. both indi- vidual and professional. were with my client,
 "The case was the first wherein I came out with any especial eclat. made a vigorous attack on the two conspirators. as l called them, for at tempting to incriminate a beautiful and modest scion of the cid noblesse of France, who sat weeping in the prisoners box. turned the sympathy from the real eulprits to my client. My summing up was surprise to my friends. who said they had not sus- pected what there was in me. When got through the jury without leaving their seats brought in verdict Of not guilty Then the congratulations were divided between the prisoner and me said to them all:
 "1f had hot been convinced of Mile. Deverouxs innocence l could not have done it
 From that day I resolved to con tinue in the branch of the law for which had shown such adaptability.
 "l have never been so nearly in love before or since. I suppose it was that my whole being had been enlisted in saving from disgrace a very attractive woman. Had Nile. Deveroux remain GU in America long enough fer my pas sion to bloom l dare say I should have yielded But as soon as the trial was over she began to make arrangements to return to France. How she was to raise the money 10 do so did not know. for she had nothing to offer me for fee should have declined to take any fee. but 1 did not nave the opportunity. Indeed, would have liked to offer her the means with which to return to her native land. but felt sensitiveness about offering her money. The French. you know, are so uncompromising about woman tax ing money from man.
 Well. she sailed away. and about month after doing so received let ter from her and that spoon. She said that what had srieved her most was not being ahle to pay me my fee Would I accept an heirloom of her family-a spoon that had been in the possession of one " ho had died on the guillatines
 Il accepted rhe precious souvenir and showed il to number of my friends Finally l showed il. 10 a person who knew more about il than l did. II be- longed 10 set of silver which Nile Deveroux had been acquitted through my efforts of stealing.