I do not expect that they will prove of any consequence whatever." "Don't you think one or the other of us should go to the funeral ?" asked Mrs.Stevens.

"Nonsense.

No! I have no money to expend in that way--it is as much as I can do to provide comfortably for the living, without spending money to follow the dead," replied he; "and besides, I have a case coming on in the Criminal Court next week that will absorb all my attention." "What kind of a case is it ?" she inquired.
"A murder case.

Some Irishmen were engaged in a row, when one of the party received a knock on his head that proved too much for him, and died in consequence.

My client was one of the contending parties; and has been suspected, from some imprudent expressions of his, to have been the man who struck the fatal blow.