The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-02

psssers-by paused as r. to read 1t.
After a while he added to Il, Per
sonal Injury Cases Specially
and found a recess down the hall
from which he could watch the
employes pass the sign, sheering
loft as If from a man-trap. The
height OF Craighead's pleasure
came when O'tirady himself final
lily paused, read the sign over and
over as il to make sure that this
hnspeakable effrontery were not
really hailucination, and depart
ed suddenly in sort of dignified
panic. Then Craighead went
Shopping about foraging for hotel
stationery, on which he sketched
an additional design advertising
the new legal business in Room
i37.
eve must be economical" said
said he. "If we can appropriate
stationery enough for a month, II
will pay to get a rubber stamp
made"
Craighead. went out late and
brought back several legal-iooking
books, which he ranged upon the
dresser in dusty formidability-
an old set of Illinois Statutes, and
a tattered Broom's Legal Maxims,
from which he read unctuously
such Latin aphorisms, as de min
Iimis non curat lex" "Falsus in
uno, falsus in omnibus" and the
like, and lectured upon them very
informatively. The remainder of
the library consisted of ten
years file of Martindale's Legal
directory. containing nothing
more authoritative than lists of
the worlds lawyers. In each of
them Craighead interlined in ink,
on the proper page. his own name,
with the highest professional
rating, and financial standing.
This, my dear colonel" said
he, may seem to you like trifling;
but in the life of business and the
business of life, there is no such
thing as a trifle. Take care of
the trifles, and the truffles will
take care of themselves--and the
lterrapin and lobster also. This
library I consider my master
stroke. When O'Grady's spies see
it, / reckon, sub, it'll throw a
crimp into EN-
where did you get them? 2"
asked Theodore.
Secondhand man." replied
Craighead. ION approval, We
must keep up appearances even II
we have to buy EN-"
They went out for a walk to
give O'Grady a chance, as Craig
head expressed it, to see what he
was up against, statement that
mystified Theodore greatly.
On their return, Mr.. O'Grady
seemed to have been wrought up
on by what he was "up against" :;
for he asked Mr.. Craighead IL he
would be so good as to give him
a few minutes. Mr.. Craighead
looked at his watch, pleaded lack
of time, and asked Theodore il
their business could wait. When
Carson admitted that it could
O'Grady said THANK you, SIR" In
the tone of a porter accepting a
Tip.
What under heaven had sudden
ly raised the expelled Craighead
from his despised position in the
Institute to thing to inspire ter
ror and panic, Theodore could not
imagine, nor guess the reason for
Craighead's sardonic laughter, as
he sat in their room, drawing in
dictments against O'Grady and
Witherspoon. He saw, however,
that these were awesome docu-
ments, which set forth in large,
round hand that these gentlemen
had been guilty of obtaining
money under false pretenses, false
imprisonment. malicious assault,
and the like, all done "felonious-
ly, of malice pretense and afore-
thought, not having the fear of
God before their eyes, but insti-
gated thereunto by the devil"
and against the peace and dig
nifty of the State of Illinois, and
contrary to the statutes in such
cases made and provided" They
were carefully docketed, in a
Istyle SO intensely legal that Theo-
Idore himself was impressed with
1.-THE terrible nature of his case
against the Institute. The person
al injury specialist then read the
accusations in round tones that
rolled thunderously out into the
halls through the transoms, and
arranged them in careful disor-