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The Green Bag

J. Grantham, the owner of the Sun punish the woman who had refused to Brewery, would like to talk with you. marry him, as well as his favored Can you arrange to come to my office cousin, had hit upon the expedient of the day after tomorrow between ten suppressing his uncle's will. As a re sult, Arthur and Thomas Garland had and eleven?" divided the whole of their father's prop "Yes, sir." Promptly at ten o'clock in the morn erty. When George Grantham had rea ing of the second day following, George son to believe that his two cousins had Grantham entered Marsden's office. He disposed of a considerable part of their had hardly had time to sit down before inheritance, he "found" the will, and he a man entered who stared hard at intended to take steps to get possession Grantham, his face showing signs of of whatever remained of his deceased uncle's estate, the temporary posses great surprise. "So you've found the man," he re sion of which by Arthur Garland was essential to the carrying out of Gran marked. "Found whom?" ejaculated Marsden, tham's diabolical plot, because without it the former could never have married. frowning perplexedly. "Why, this man (pointing at Gran Mr. Marsden was irate at his client's tham). He's the one as asked me to attempt to impose upon him, and his annoyance caused him to take a peculiar direct that envelope." Joshua Garland's will, although gen step. He insisted that unless the will was uine, was never presented for probate destroyed then and there, the matter by the sole beneficiary, his nephew, would be brought to the surrogate's George James Grantham. That extraor notice the following morning. This threat dinary man, who evidently cared little was effectual, and the document was for money, being fully determined to burned before Grantham left the office.

Two Georgia Judges By L. B. Ellis IT has been about a hundred years since John M. Dooly first took a seat upon the Bench of Georgia, but his judicial keenness and strength are still held in honor, while his quick Irish wit can never be forgotten. Indeed, the very name of Dooly is associated with some of the most humorous traditions of the Georgia bar. An appreciative biographer says of him that, "like Charles II, Dooly could not only say good things to set off his bad deeds, but, what was

more fortunate, could say them of the deeds themselves, and always thus gild the pills of impropriety which he admin istered to the public." This judge it was who went to a noted faro-table and broke the bank during that very court-session in which he had so eloquently charged the Grand Jury against the vice and crime of gaming. What was his excuse? "Gentlemen," he modestly remarked, when the play was at an end, "finding that I could not