dea that he would comply with the
demand. The stranger wrote a cheque upon his bankerfor the
whole amountand left him.
‘The draft was duly honouredand the attorneyfinding that his
strange client might be safely relied uponcommenced his work in
earnest. For more than two years afterwardsMr. Heyling would
sit whole days togetherin the officeporing over the papers as
they accumulatedand reading again and againhis eyes gleaming
with joythe letters of remonstrancethe prayers for a little delay
the representations of the certain ruin in which the opposite party
must be involvedwhich poured inas suit after suitand process
after processwas commenced. To all applications for a brief
indulgencethere was but one reply—the money must be paid.
Landhousefurnitureeach in its turnwas taken under some one
of the numerous executions which were issued; and the old man
himself would have been immured in prison had he not escaped
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the vigilance of the officersand fled.
‘The implacable animosity of Heylingso far from being satiated
by the success of his
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