Show ONE WOMANS LITTLE LITTLE JOKE I How It Led to a Suit at Law and Serious Complications Boston Post Mrs Margaret Gatty one of ot Brattle boros wittiest society women planned and executed a a joke now she Is the de do defendant in an action at law while the society of that Vermont city Is waiting with glee the outcome of the affair It all emanated from a bright idea conceived by Mrs tIrs Gatty and a few of her society friends who had become firmly convinced that James H Hook Hooker er attorney and wealthy clubman was working altogether too hard and needed a little diversion to distract him from the arduousness of so busy a summer One day recently while the young at attorney attorney attorney torney sat at his desk with papers piled plied high on each side and an amount of or work before him that prom promised promIsed promIsed to keep office Into the wee small hours of ot the night the telephone at his elbow rang Taking up the receiver Mr Hooker listened to the apparently distracted voice YO lee of Mrs tIrs Gatty one of his hla ac acquaintances acquaintances Mrs Gatty appeared to tobe tobe tobe be greatly overwrought and explained that a dreadful attempt had Just been bee made to swindle her out of at a sum of oC money that the alleged swindler had left a handbag behind and would Mr Hooker come up Immediately and open the bag and discover if possible the Identity of the guilty person The young lawyer hastily clapped on his hat and hastened up to Mrs Gattys fashionable fa residence He was ushered Into the drawing room and the bag was shown him Without further parley the lawyer opened the bag and extracted a nice yellow ellow lemon Then the light broke upon the attorney and amid the titter ings which emanated from different re recesses recesses recesses of ot the drawing room lie be bowed and withdrew after atter declaring gravely that he felt that the case was settled and trusted that his client would be no disturbed I IA longer A little later Mrs Gatty received a abill abill I bill for tor services made out In the usual i form Under the conviction that this I bill was merely the humorous revenge I I by Mr Mi Hooker Hook r for tor the joke played upon i him the bill hIlI was pigeonholed Much to her he consternation a sheriff sherif appeared recently at Mrs Gattys home and served the papers in a suit for fees tees due to Mr Hooker for services The whole city Is Interested In Law Lawyer Lawyer Lawyer and fac fan factions factions yer Hookers plan for revenge renge have hae already been formed |