Connecticut western news., 1922-06-29

Harry spent the afternoon with Mrs Kelso and Bim's baby boy.- He wrote a very tender letter to Bim that day. He told her that he had come to Chi cago to live so that he might be near her and ready to help her if she need ed help. "The same old love is in my heart that made me want you for my wife long ago, that has filled my let ters and sustained me In many an hour of peril" he wrote If you really think that you must marry Da- wis, ask you at least to wait for the developments of suit which Abe Lin- coin Is bringing in behalf of many
 citizens of Farewell county. It is likely that We shall know more than we do now before that case ends. saw your beautiful little boy. He looks so much like you that long to steal him and keep him with me-"
 In a few days he received this brief reply: ..5 .t
 Dear Harry: Your letter pleased and pained me. have been so tossed about that don't know quite where stand. For a long time my life has been nothing but series of emotions. What Honest Abe may be able to prove 1 know not, but I am sure that he cannot disprove the fact that MT. Davis has been kind and generous to me. For that I cannot ever cease to be grateful. I should have married him before now but for one singular circumstance My little boy cannot be made to like him. He will have noth- ing to do with Mir. Davis. He will not be bribed or coerced. saw In this a prophecy of trouble. left home, and went down into the very shadow of death. It may be that we have been saved for each other by the wisdom of childhood. Imust not see you now Nor shall see him until have found my way. Even your call cannot make me forget that am under a solemn promise.
 I'm glad you like the boy. He Is a wonderful child. I named him Ne hemiah for his grandfather. We call him Nim and sometimes MT. Nimble' because he is so lively. I'm homesick to see him and you. am going to Dixon to teach and earn money for mother and the baby Don't tell any, one where am and above all don't come to see me until in good heart I can ask you to come. -~-' r
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 Tn a few weeks the suit came on. Davis defense, as given in the an- be paid out of the proceeds of the sale of lots and that in consequence of the collapse of the boom there had been no such proceeds. AS to the un- derstanding upon which the notes were drawn, there was a direct issue of veracity for which Abe Lincoln was exceedingly well prepared. His cross-examination was as merciless as sunlight failing round helpless thing" It was kindly and polite in tone but relentless In. its searching. When it ended, the weight of Davis character had been accurately estab- lished. In his masterly summing up Mir. Lincoln presented every circum- stance in favor of the defendants po- sition. With remarkable insight he anticipated the arguments of his at torney. He presented them fairly and generously to the court and jury. Ac- cording to Samson the opposing law yers admitted in private talk that Lincoln had thought of presumptions in favor of Davis which had not oc- cured to them. Therein lay the char ,acteristic of MT. Lincoln's method in a lawsuit. -..--.- ..~-. < . T
 ''It was a safe thing for him to do, for he never took case in which jus tice was not clearly on his side," Sam- son writes. eff he, had been deceived as to the merits of a case he would drop It. With the sword of justice in his hand he was invincible"
 A judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiffs for the full amount of their claim with costs. The character of Lionel Davis had been sufficiently revealed Even the credulous Mrs. Kelso turned against him. MT. Lin coln's skill as a lawyer was recognized in the north as we'll as in the middle counties. From that day forth no man enjoyed like popularity in Taze- we'll county. Ssi:. n sTs saE E ts.A'",,
 When Samson and Harry Needles left the courthouse, there seemed to be no obstacle between the young man and the tonsummation of his wishes Unfortunately, as they were going down the steps Davis. who blamed Samson for his troubles, hung an in- suit at the sturdy Vermonter. Sam son, who had then arrived at years of firm discretion, was little disturbed by the anger of a man so discredited. But Harry, on the sound of the hate full words, had leaped forward and dealt the speculator a savage blow in the face which for a few seconds had deprived him of the power of speech. That evening a friend of Davis called at the City hall with a challenge. The