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f erred my claim for that purpose to my associate 

 in the suit. Our lien was the first on the opera 

 house and proved exceedingly embarrassing to 

 the gang so much so that we were offered fifty 

 per cent of our claim in settlement, but on the ur- 

 gent plea of the man in whose name the suit had 

 been brought that in another day we would get 

 our claim in full I assented to a refusal of the 

 offer I was burning to accept. "Another day" 

 never came to me, excepting in the form of an 

 announcement that it had been discovered that 

 nothing could be done with the suit and it had 

 been settled without however any cost to me. 

 I felt that I was quite helpless and was little 

 surprised when there followed the announcement 



of the new Gould firm of , & Co., 



the senior partner of which had again robbed 

 me. For a time this firm handled Gould mil- 

 lions in spectacular fashion and I have often 

 wondered since which of these choice spirits won 

 out in that partnership deal. I fancy that just 

 for once the Erie man met his match. The 

 method by which my claim was settled was sug- 



