One additional safeguard he had, however.
This was the evidence of the lawyer's clerk, who was present on
the occasion of the deposit.
"My father went to the West Indies, but the change seemed only to
accelerate the progress of his malady. He lingered for a few
months and then died. Before his death he wrote two letters, one
to my uncle and one to myself. In these he communicated the fact
of his having deposited twenty-five thousand dollars with his
lawyer. He mentioned incidentally the presence of the lawyer's
clerk at the time. I am a little surprised that he should have
done it, as not the faintest suspicion of the lawyer's good faith
had entered his thoughts.
"On receiving this letter my uncle, on my behalf, took measures
to claim this sum, and for this purpose came to Boston. Imagine
his surprise and indignation when the lawyer positively denied
having received any such deposit and called upon him, to prove
it. With great effrontery he declared that it was absurd to
suppose that my father would have entrusted him with any such sum
without a receipt for it.
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