Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1882 — A Young Man With a Motive. [ARTICLE]

A Young Man With a Motive.

[St. Loui« Dispatch.] “Aha! I see! I see through it all now,” exclaimed a prominent attorney, as he turned to a friend in the clerk’s office of the circuit court after looking over the return docket; “I see through the young man’s game now. ” “What do you mean?” exclaimed the gentleman addressed. “I mean,” resumed the attorney, “that that young man,” (pointing to a name on the docket] “has tried to play it very fine on me.’ “How is that?” “Well, I will tell you. Some time ago the young man pretended to be in love with my daughter. He called at iny house quite frequently, ostensibly for the purpose of paying his respects to that young lady, but invariably engagod me in conversation. While talking he always broached the subject of law and lawyers, and .asked my opinion on certain points. This he continued night after night, until I suspected his object in visiting my house, and followed him to the front door and told him that when he returned to make another call he could obtain my opinion concerning the legal questions he desired to have answered by bringing S6O with him. That call was his last. I never thought anything more of the matter until I looked at this docket. He has instituted a case I see, and has employed another attorney to prosecute his case. 80 you see the rascal simply courted my daughter for the purpose of obtaining a legal opinion from me free of charge, while he was advising at the same time with another attorney.